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. 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.

2. Homer:

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

3. Jiren Parikh:

   Do we really think we're going to start weaponizing robots ? It's silly to do that. I don't think that's in the DNA of America either, we live in a country that has so many rules and regulatory requirements in place that things like this are just remote and virtually impossible without the say of the populace.

4. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   The power of a government is a sacred trust, only justly exercised when it safeguards the liberties and aspirations of its populace.

5. Titus Livius:

   The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.