POPULARITY


Meaning of POPULARITY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a popularity contest (= to decide which person people like the most )

The competition has turned into a popluarity contest.

a popularity poll (= measuring how popular someone is )

In most popularity polls, he is in fourth or fifth place.

an approval/popularity rating

His popularity rating remains high.

gain popularity

Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

continuing

Among the problems it faces are: the continuing popularity of the service amongst the general public.

This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage.

enormous

In spite of her enormous popularity and the huge attraction she held for men throughout her life she remained incredibly insecure.

The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.

In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath.

These are all reasons for Schiffer's enormous popularity .

Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.

The museum authorities wanted the work removed after the filming was completed despite the statue's enormous popularity .

These, as they appeared one by one in the pages of the Strand Magazine, attracted enormous popularity .

great

Portacaval shunt surgery has not enjoyed great popularity because of the very high incidence of postoperative encephalopathy in the elderly.

The area of its greatest popularity seems to be in Addergoole Parish, Ireland.

Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate's greatest popularity .

The program gained a great deal of popularity among state and local officials as well as in Congress.

Funk, which in the late seventies was enjoying great popularity in the South and Midwest, was rarely on their playlists.

It is this psychological underpinning which explains the sudden great popularity of the story.

In fact, the clarity that Kathy Switzer describes is one of the reasons for the great popularity of the sport.

However, Historical Romances achieved even greater popularity during the two decades that followed.

growing

The growing popularity of the telephone is not, however, without its problems.

Banks appear to be growing in popularity: a year ago only 17 percent would have bought life cover through a bank.

And there was further evidence of the growing popularity of Waterstones and Dillons vouchers.

One theory for its growing mainstream popularity is that contemporary values are merging with country sentiments.

Nor do they deny the growing popularity of Bolshevik rather than Menshevik slogans and strategy in the pre-war years.

One reason for the later age at marriage is the growing popularity of premarital cohabitation.

immense

That sense is still lacking on the World Wide Web, despite its immense popularity .

increasing

An additional factor is the increasing popularity or cremation.

personal

Mr Ashdown's personal popularity is also reflected in a separate Gallup poll measuring the standing of the parties.

The end result was a sort of Ponzi scheme of personal popularity that had its parallels in the markets.

He then used his personal popularity and legitimacy to win public support for his regime.

But Reagan was unable to transfer his great personal popularity into support for his policies.

Mrs Thatcher was, of course, strongly identified with the tax and her personal popularity plummeted as a consequence.

A former consultant gastroenterologist at Stobhill Hospital Sir Thomas has enjoyed personal popularity .

political

In Chechnya he quickly gained political popularity , was elected president and declared his republic an independent nation in 1991.

■ NOUN

contest

It will be a popularity contest .

Popularity is nice, but this is no popularity contest .

Like most goods, stocks are a kind of popularity contest .

rating

The president's popularity ratings are at a record low.

■ VERB

achieve

His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity .

However, Historical Romances achieved even greater popularity during the two decades that followed.

decline

Over the years, zoos have declined in popularity .

After many years of declining popularity , the lowly rhubarb is making a comeback in both gourmet and gardening circles.

After that it declined rapidly in popularity .

enjoy

Norbrook also recognises that the love lyric was not the only type of verse to enjoy popularity in the Renaissance.

Funk, which in the late seventies was enjoying great popularity in the South and Midwest, was rarely on their playlists.

Alesis reverb units are par for the course in home studios; and their 3630 should enjoy the same popularity .

The Historical Romance attracted numerous new practitioners and for the next several decades it enjoyed widespread popularity .

No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior.

And Mazursky was reassuring in noting that hot toy items typically enjoy popularity for three to five years, then fade.

They knew that Nkrumah enjoyed a popularity which none of them could emulate.

The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.

explain

It is this psychological underpinning which explains the sudden great popularity of the story.

Meat's taste, for example, can not explain its popularity , for flavour is not an absolute quality.

gain

But it has gained amazingly in popularity .

Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity .

So why is complementary medicine gaining popularity ?

A strategy rapidly gaining popularity is to use three of them at once.

Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.

His fortunes slip as competing styles gain popularity .

The desire to cut taxes Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes, not by increasing them.

Talk radio and talk television hosts, mostly but by no means all conservative, are proliferating and gaining influence and popularity .

grow

Skating is responsible for the growing popularity of nordic resorts in Northern California.

Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity .

The quest for big game has grown in popularity .

Cohabitation between marriages has also grown in popularity .

The center has grown in popularity .

Programs for interactive analysis, such as Egret, S, and its derivative SPlus, are growing in popularity .

Wraps growing popularity makes them easily accessible.

increase

There's still a growing gap between the rich and poor, despite the increasing popularity of the Internet.

Frozen food has greatly increased in popularity ever since Clarence Birdseye popularized frozen peas during the 1920s.

The Youth Club has increased in popularity this session and has a thriving expanding membership.

However, according to many suppliers, pasta shapes are rapidly increasing in popularity .

Employee trusts Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees.

Threats to expropriate, always a gimmick to increase popularity , never materialised.

With golf still increasing in popularity , this upward trend shows no sign of abating.

lose

But it continues to lose popularity - for all the wrong reasons.

As President Boris Yeltsin has lost popularity , he has made concessions to nationalist views.

The President wants a motorcade because the polls show he is losing popularity by the minute.

rise

Quickly rising in popularity due to its magnificent white sand beach, Kuantan is one of the east coast's finest resorts.

Changing reader habits are also spurring the rising popularity of alternative weeklies.

win

It now has to become a modern social democratic party which can win because of the popularity of its vision.

Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy: it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

in the popularity/fashion etc stakes

Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes .

They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Lee's popularity started to fade somewhat.

The popularity of cellular phones has grown in the last five years.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack, riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave.

Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity .

Attempts to denigrate his playing simply because of his popularity are misplaced but regrettably widespread.

But prolonged recession and high unemployment knocked his popularity down to rock-bottom.

Cohabitation between marriages has also grown in popularity .

Margaret profited too from her sister's popularity and the relaxation in rules.

Nicholas Ferrar's wide popularity is quite recent.

Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.

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