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extrapopular

extrapopular adjective: outside of the populace.

Adjective

extrapopular (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the populace.
    • […] an extrapopular or privileged few […]1849, George Grote, A History of Greece, volume 4, page 211
    • It is of a self-evolving and genetic nature, and thus is contradistinguished from governments founded on extrapopular principles, such as divine right.1946, Herbert Wallace Schneider, A History of American Philosophy, volume 10, page 151

Origin of extrapopular

From extra- + popular.

Questions about extrapopular

What does extrapopular mean?
Extrapopular means outside of the populace.
What part of speech is extrapopular?
Extrapopular is an adjective.

Words near extrapopular in the dictionary

  1. extrapolatory
  2. extrapolitical
  3. extrapolitically
  4. extrapolymeric
  5. extrapontine
  6. extrapopular
  7. extraposable
  8. extrapose
  9. extraposed
  10. extraposes
  11. extraposing

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