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

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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. Ryan Barenklau:

   The general populace does not like her. They are certainly more happy with Moon in power than they would have been keeping her, she is viewed in disgrace by the majority of South Koreans.

2. Kate Brown:

   Oregon's government belongs to its people, and an informed, engaged populace is essential to democracy, another essential element is trust, and rebuilding that trust begins now. These reforms are designed to ensure the timely fulfillment of public records requests, to hold public officials accountable, and foster a culture of transparency.

3. Henry Louis 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.

4. Homer:

   A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

5. Abid Qaiyum Suleri:

   The availability and accessibility of food may become difficult for over 60 percent of the populace in the next 10 years if immediate steps aren’t taken to recharge the aquifer.