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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
popularly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elected
▪ At the base of the revolutionary pyramid lay the popularly elected town Juntas, sometimes two in the same town.
▪ These bodies were popularly elected and responsible direct to the electors.
▪ Legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a popularly elected 49-member House of Assembly and an appointed 16-member Senate.
■ VERB
believe
▪ The civil war was not fought over the partition of the island as is popularly believed.
call
▪ The Thief's Corrie is now popularly called Hidden Valley.
elect
▪ Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Parliament, the 38 members of which are popularly elected for up to four years.
▪ The president is elected popularly for a fixed seven-year term and then selects a premier, who selects a cabinet.
▪ This was followed by the popularly elected Belaunde administration which has attempted to launch numerous reforms and development programs.
▪ Political system Executive authority is vested in a Governor, who is popularly elected for a four-year term.
know
▪ West of the atrium is a large expanse of water popularly known as the port of Milan.
▪ Aficionados such as Cohen, known popularly as hams, have been forging bonds across the airwaves for decades.
▪ His district has become popularly known as a disordered and lawless community.
think
▪ Although popularly thought of as a female offence, women do not outnumber men among those found guilty.
▪ In these circumstances, divorce is often popularly thought to be the preferable alternative.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Yeltsin was Russia's first popularly elected president.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A certain mental and physical deterioration of course occurs with age, but its speed and effects are popularly exaggerated.
▪ Divorce is no longer so shameful and is popularly seen as a permissible solution to marital difficulties.
▪ Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral 12-member Parliament which is popularly elected for up to four years.
▪ The air pollution that is associated with car use has been more popularly understood in recent years.
▪ The president is elected popularly for a fixed seven-year term and then selects a premier, who selects a cabinet.
▪ The traditional ghost appears in a hazy white form, popularly believed to be ectoplasm.
▪ These bodies were popularly elected and responsible direct to the electors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Popularly

Popularly \Pop"u*lar*ly\, adv. In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.

The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed.
--Dryden.

Wiktionary
popularly

adv. In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularly reported.

WordNet
popularly

adv. among the people; "this topic was popularly discussed"

Usage examples of "popularly".

As the franchise became exercisable by greater numbers of people, the belief became widespread that Senators ought to be popularly elected in the same manner as Representatives.

It is popularly ascribed to the over-cultivation of the race, as plants and animals highly civilised--that is, greatly modified and bred to an artificial excellence by human agency--are certainly delicate, unprolific, and especially difficult to rear.

Most antiabortion activists, for example, have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.

From all the information I have received, I am now satisfied that a very large and comprehensive plan of attack had been arranged by the party which is popularly known as the Sweeny-Roberts section of the Fenian Brotherhood.

This deadline is popularly known as the safe-harbor provision of federal lawa provision that came to play a pivotal role in the 2000 presidential election.

Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.

But in truth all general terms are popularly and classically used in somewhat different senses.

Lord Wharncliffe addressed the house against the measure, defending nomination, not because it was made by peers or other influential individuals, but because its effect in the house of commons was that it acted as a check on those places which were popularly represented.

The Pharaoh through the narrow tunnels of the Great Pyramid of Giza Khufu, more popularly known as Cheops, was responsible down to the bottom chamber and, for a year prior, complex for the building of the greatest pyramid, farthest to the diplomatic effort to be granted permission to bring the northeast.

New York is still popularly supposed to be in the control of the Irish, but March noticed in these East Side travels of his what must strike every observer returning to the city after a prolonged absence: the numerical subordination of the dominant race.

When a number of people at a theatre watch an actor, the changes in their several perspectives are so similar and so closely correlated that all are popularly regarded as identical with each other and with the changes of the actor himself.

Consequently her husband believed he had reason to fear the Duke of Lan­caster, who was popularly credited with a wicked uncle’s designs on the crown.

The most famous Curium is the "Sacra Congregatio Romanae et universalis Inquisitionis seu sancti officii," popularly known as the Inquisition, which was founded in 1227 by Pope Joan VI.

There were rocks with heliotrope pouring over them and flowers peeping behind them, and great azaleas all in triumphant bloom, and ropes of flowering creepers coming down from trees, and oleanders, and a plant named popularly Joy of the South, and small paths went along it edged with shells brought from the far sea.

A form of wave motion popularly known as clear-air turbulence occasionally enlivens airplane flights.