Hypertext Webster Gateway: "populace"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Populace \Pop"u*lace\, n. [F. populace, fr. It. popolaccio,
popolazzo, fr. popolo people, L. populus. See {People}.]
The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, --
comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office,
education, or profession. --Pope.
To . . . calm the peers and please the populace.
--Daniel.
They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces.
--Tennyson.
Syn: Mob; people; commonalty.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
populace
n : people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in
the eyes of the public" [syn: {public}, {world}]
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