Popular may refer to:
- An adjective referring to any people or population
- Social status, the quality of being well-liked or well-known
- Popularity, the quality of being well-liked
- The mainstream, the quality of being common, well-received, in demand, widely understood
- Popular culture, popular fiction, popular music. popular science
- Informal usage or custom, as in Popular names, terminology or Nomenclature, as opposed to formal or scientific names, terminology, or nomenclature.
- Frequently used or selected options, such as given names that are popular in the sense that they occur at high frequency in a population.
- Populace, the total population of a certain place
- Populism, a political philosophy seeking to use the instruments of the state to benefit the people as a whole
- Populous, a 1989 computer game, the seminal god game; see also Populous (series)
- Popular (TV series), a teenage dramedy on the WB
- Popular Holdings, a Singapore-based educational book company
- Popular, Inc., a Puerto Rican-based financial services company, also known as Banco Popular inc
- The Popular Magazine an American literary magazine that ran for 612 issues from November 1903 to October 1931
- The Popular (Department Store) was a local chain of department stores in El Paso, Texas that was established in 1902 and closed in 1995
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Famous quotes containing the word popular:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)