pop music
pop music noun: music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music.
Noun
pop music (usually uncountable, plural pop musics)
- Music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music.
- Pop music, despite its commercial focus, includes many artistic gems.
pop music meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
pop music in Hindi
- music intended for or accepted by a wide audience — see also popular music
- पॉप pŏp, पॉप म्यूज़िक pŏp myūzik, पॉप संगीत pŏp saṅgīt
pop music in Marathi
- music intended for or accepted by a wide audience — see also popular music
- पॉप संगीत pŏp saṅgīt
pop music in Urdu
- music intended for or accepted by a wide audience — see also popular music
- پاپ مُوسِیقِی pāp mūsīqī
pop music in Bengali
- music intended for or accepted by a wide audience — see also popular music
- পপসংগীত popośoṅgit
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- pop music in Malayalam
- ജനപ്രിയസംഗീതം, ജനപ്രീതിയാർജ്ജിച്ച ആധുനികസംഗീതം, ജനകീയസംഗീതം, ചടുലസംഗീതം
- pop music in Tagalog
- musikang pop
- pop music in Arabic
- مُوسِيقَى الْبُوب mūsīqā l-būb, مُوسِيقَى شَعْبِيَّة mūsīqā šaʕbiyya
- pop music in Malay
- muzik pop
- pop music in Indonesian
- musik pop
- pop music in Thai
- เพลงป๊อป pleeng-bpɔ̀p, ป็อป bpɔ́p
- pop music in Vietnamese
- nhạc pop, pop
- pop music in Myanmar
- ပေါ့ပ်ဂီတ paup.gita.
Forms of pop music
| plural | pop musics |
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Origin of pop music
A shortened form of popular music.
Questions about pop music
- What does pop music mean?
- Pop music means music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music.
- What is pop music in Hindi?
- Pop music in Hindi is पॉप (pŏp), पॉप म्यूज़िक (pŏp myūzik), पॉप संगीत (pŏp saṅgīt). See Pop music meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pop music?
- Pop music is a noun.
- What is the plural of pop music?
- The plural of pop music is pop musics.
Words near pop music in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pop music (page history and authors); pop music (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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