Meanings
comparative more popularly · superlative most popularly
- In a popular manner.
- Commonly.
They were popularly known as "the Kings of California"
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Officially the Nordland Railway begins at Hell, but popularly the whole route north of Trondheim is so called.
1957 August 28, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 571[T]he Oligocene's signature species were an unsavoury group of pigs and pig-like creatures, foremost among which were the entelodonts, more popularly known as hell pigs, or terminator pigs.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 85
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Translations
Bulgarian популярно
- популярно (populjarno)in a popular manner
Catalan popularment
- popularmentin a popular manner
Finnish suositusti
- suositustiin a popular manner
Greek ευρέως
- ευρέως (evréos)in a popular manner
Italian popolarmente
- popolarmentein a popular manner
Polish popularnie
- popularniein a popular manner
Portuguese popularmente
- popularmentein a popular manner
Spanish popularmente
- popularmentein a popular manner
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popularly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/popularly
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