Common among the general public; generally accepted.
(law) Concerning the people; public.
Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.
(obsolete) Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.
Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.
(obsolete) Cultivating the favour of the common people.
Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
Adapted to the means of the common people; cheap.

Examples of "popular" in Sentences

Inshoot “Inshoot” was a term popular in the 1890s.
Among the earliest uses of the term popular culture is an anonymous Contemporary Review editorial, reprinted under that title in the New York Times, bemoaning its lack.
They may resent the imposition of American culture in the form of movies and music, but that’s only because our popular culture is so *popular* that it drowns out native culture.
I've always wondered how James Luther Adams, who reinterpreted the meaning of "prophet" in ways that made the term popular among progressive Unitarian Universalists, really got around this point when it comes to the biblical prophets.
The popular vote had been so light that it really looked as though the people had cared very little which candidate should succeed; and to talk about a manifestation of the _popular will_ was absurd, for the only real manifestation had been of popular indifference.
Thus that _one means to national prosperity is popular education_ is an immediate inference, if the evidence for it is no more than the admission that _popular education is a means to national prosperity: _ Similarly, it is an immediate inference that _Some authors are vain_, if it be granted that _All authors are vain_.

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