Synonyms for populace
ˈpɒp yə ləspop·u·lace

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1. populacenoun

   The common people of a nation.

   The populace despised their ignorant leader.

   Synonyms:
   rabble, masses, hoi polloi, riff-raff, people

2. populacenoun

   The inhabitants of a nation.

   Synonyms:
   inhabitant, population

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1. populace

   The populace are poor and ignorant, but may be law-abiding; a mob is disorderly and lawless, but may be rich and influential. The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose. A crowd may be drawn by mere curiosity; some strong, pervading excitement is needed to make it a mob. Compare PEOPLE.

   Synonyms:
   canaille, crowd, dregs of the people, lower classes, masses, mob, rabble, the vulgar

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1. populace, public, worldnoun

   people in general considered as a whole

   "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

   Synonyms:
   reality, world, humankind, public, human race, earthly concern, man, cosmos, globe, creation, macrocosm, universe, worldly concern, humanity, human beings, mankind, existence, humans, earth, domain

Matched Categories

1. • People

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1. populacenoun

   Synonyms:
   commonalty, rabble, mob, the people, the crowd, the multitude, the million, the peasantry, the vulgar herd, the common people, the lower classes, the vulgar, the humbler classes, scum of society, dregs of society

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1. populacenoun

   Synonyms:
   commonalty, proletariat, rabble

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1. List of paraphrases for "populace":

   population

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1. Ben McKenzie:

   The notion that any significant portion of the populace will take it upon themselves to spend the multiple hours required to read a 450 page report is sadly unrealistic.

2. Muhammad Sani Abdullahi:

   For young people who constitute a greater chunk of the populace, reliance on the internet for daily functions has become a must, business, both small and large wouldn't be able to continue their everyday activities should the government keep the people cut out.

3. H.L. Mencken:

   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

4. H. L. Mencken:

   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

5. Craig Singleton:

   The notion of robbing pensioners to pay back the party for the costs associated with compulsory Covid testing and other expensive pandemic measures was never going to sit well with the general populace.