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vox populi

/ˈvɒks ˈpɒpjuːlaɪ/

vox populi noun: voice of the people.

Noun

vox populi

  1. (rhetoric) Voice of the people.
  2. The public comment portion of a public meeting.
    • “To the extent that the Council passed a local law amending the Charter and the Council represents the people, it may be considered that the vox populi, which secured the initiated legislation, changed its own voice,” Justice Arthur E. Blyn of State Supreme Court wrote in the lower-court decision...2001 February 22, Eric Lipton, “Vox Populi Aside, Power to the City Council”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

vox populi meaning in Tamil and Urdu

vox populi in Tamil

மக்கள் குரல், மக்களின் ஒருமித்த கருத்து

vox populi in Urdu

عوام کی رائے

Synonyms of vox populi

Origin of vox populi

Borrowed from Latin vox populi (“voice of the people”).

Questions about vox populi

What does vox populi mean?
Vox populi means voice of the people.
What is vox populi in Tamil?
Vox populi in Tamil is மக்கள் குரல், மக்களின் ஒருமித்த கருத்து. See Vox populi meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vox populi?
Vox populi is a noun.
How do you pronounce vox populi?
Vox populi is pronounced /ˈvɒks ˈpɒpjuːlaɪ/ (US).

Words near vox populi in the dictionary

  1. vox humana
  2. vox humanas
  3. vox nihili
  4. vox pop
  5. vox pops
  6. vox populi
  7. voxel
  8. voxelate
  9. voxelated
  10. voxelates
  11. voxelating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vox populi (page history and authors); vox populi (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vox populi (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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