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:
“If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure.... There probably is an “irrepressible conflict” between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as be formed with that as an admitted fact.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“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)