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Definition: Populist |
PopulistNoun1. An advocate of democratic principles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "populist" was first used: 1892. (references) |
Etymology: Populist \Pop"u*list\, noun. [Latin expression populus people -ist.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas.". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Populism is characterized by a sometimes radical critique of the status quo, but on the whole does not have a strong political identity as either a left-wing or right-wing movement. Populism has taken both left-wing and right-wing forms. In recent years, conservative politicians have increasingly begun adopting populist-sounding rhetoric; for example, promising to "get big government off your backs", or to stand up to "the powerful trial lawyer lobby", "the liberal elite", or "the Hollywood elite", which are dubious labels at best. Populism has also at times been adopted as a vehicle for the extreme right wing; in 1984 the Populist Party name was revived but was used in 1988 as a vehicle for the Presidential campaign of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Despite the adoption of populist-sounding rhetoric by conservative politicans, a genuine populism has continued to be a force in modern American politics. The 1992 and 1996 third-party Presidential campaigns of Ross Perot, the Presidential campaign in the 1992 Democratic primary of Jerry Brown, and the 2004 Presidential campaign of former Vermont governor Howard Dean, are all widely seen as modern manifestations of the populist phenomenon.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Populist."
Synonym: PopulistSynonym: democrat (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Populist |
| English words defined with "populist": campaign, cause, crusade ♦ drive ♦ effort ♦ movement ♦ Populist Party. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "populist": Populist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Populist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (populist), Romanian (populist), Swedish (populist). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pat vs. Populist (1896) | |
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Business | The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) espouses a populist outlook and believes in more government intervention in the economy. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Paraguay | Between March and September, opposition political factions and populist groups peaceably demonstrated against President Gonzalez Macchi and Vice President Franco. (references) |
Economic History | Guatemala | Controlled by the anti-corruption parties--the populist Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) headed by ex-Gen. (references) |
Guatemala | The government of President Alfonso Portillo, inaugurated in January 2000 on a populist platform, immediately challenged many contracts and privatizations approved by the previous administration. (references) | |
Minorities | Tanzania | This has led to demands by small, populist opposition parties for policies of "indigenization" to ensure that privatization does not increase the Asian community's economic predominance at the expense of the country's African population. (references) |
Political Economy | Guatemala | The ruling political party is the populist "Guatemalan Republican Front" (FRG). The FRG majority of 62 in the 113-seat Congress is led by retired general and former de facto president Efrain Rios Montt. (references) |
Ghana | Ghana has long exercised a position of leadership within the non-aligned movement and various African leaders have spent time in their formative years in Ghana, which has reinforced Ghanaian support for pan-Africanism and a populist brand of African democracy. (references) | |
Political Rights | Austria | This coalition received widespread criticism due to the nature of the FPO, which has been characterized by many observers as a "right wing populist party with radical elements." The percentage of women in government or politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population. (references) |
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| "Populist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Populist" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.91% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.09% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
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Expression using "populist": populist Party. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "populist": populist-based, populist-oriented. | |
Ending with "populist": neo-populist. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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party populist | 33 |
populist | 28 |
movement populist | 12 |
progressive populist | 9 |
1890 movement populist | 4 |
populist right wing | 4 |
candidate james populist weaver | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "populist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | احد أتباع النظرية الشعبية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 代表人民. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | populiste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | populist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λαϊκιστής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | narodnyik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kerakyatan (democracy, rule by the people). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opulistpay populismo. (various references) populist. (various references) народник, популист. (various references) pristalica populizma, populista. (various references) populista. (various references) populistisk, populist. (various references) популіст. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | populus. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "populist": populistic, populists. (additional references) | |
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"Populist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: optulit, opulist, papalist, Paulista, popblast, Poplius, populas, populis, Popullit, populos, poulets, poulis. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "populist" (pronounced pÄ"pyulust) |
| 5 | -u l u s t | agriculturalist, analyst, capitalist, catalyst, colonialist, conversationalist, cyclist, editorialist, environmentalist, federalist, finalist, formalist, fundamentalist, generalist, gentlest, herbalist, humblest, imperialist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, internationalist, journalist, littlest, loyalist, materialist, medalist, mercantilist, monopolist, motorcyclist, nationalist, naturalist, neutralist, novelist, panelist, photojournalist, psychoanalyst, semifinalist, socialist, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, survivalist, televangelist, traditionalist, ultranationalist, vocalist. |
| 4 | -l u s t | ablest, ballast, bicyclist, calloused, cellist, coolest, cruelest, dullest, fullest, idealist, noblest, palest, simplest, smallest, tallest, violist. |
| 3 | -u s t | abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, canoeist, canvassed, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cultist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, freest, freshest, friendliest, funnest, funniest, furthest, geneticist, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humorist, hygienist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, impressionist, interest, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, meanest, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, newest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, sweetest, swiftest, tannest, technologist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, virologist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-o-p-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: pulpits, slipout. | |
-2 letters: pilots, pilous, pistol, poilus, poults, pulpit, pupils, slipup, spoilt, tulips. | |
-3 letters: lotus, louis, loups, louts, pilot, pilus, pious, plops, plots, poilu, polis, posit, poult, pouts, pulis, pulps, pupil, situp, slipt, spilt, split, spoil, spout, stoup, toils, tolus, topis, tulip, uplit. | |
-4 letters: lips, lisp, list, lits, litu, lops, lost, loti, lots, loup. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-o-p-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: populists. | |
+2 letters: populistic, suppletion. | |
+3 letters: populations, postnuptial, superpolite, suppletions. | |
+4 letters: multipurpose, popularities, propitiously, supplication, supplicatory. | |
+5 letters: depopulations, insupportable, insupportably, lepidopterous, papillomatous, precipitously, repopulations, subpopulation, superdiplomat, supplantation, supplications, suppositional. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 70 75 6C 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .--. ..- .-.. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110000 01110101 01101100 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o p u l i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0070 0075 006C 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081828778758586 |
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