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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɒpjʊləs/
• (米国発音) enPR: päpʹyə-ləs, IPA: /ˈpɑpjələs/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈpɔp(j)ʊles/
• Homophone: populous (most accents)

名詞

populace (countable and uncountable, plural populaces)

1. The common people of a nation.

   The populace despised their ignorant leader.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.

2. The inhabitants of a country or one of its administrative divisions (such as a state, province, or county).
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:

     Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greater populace. His plaque is at Chester.

使用する際の注意点

• Do not confuse populace (a noun) with populous (an adjective).
• The Latin word populus, which means nearly the same thing, is sometimes erroneously used for populace in English writing.

同意語

• (common people of a nation): common people, hoi polloi, masses, people, rabble, riff-raff
• (inhabitants of a nation): inhabitants, population

派生語

参照

• “populace”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.