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# popularity

«popularity» in Mova's school dictionary: **being liked, enjoyed or supported by many people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (popularity — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Popularity is being liked, enjoyed or supported by many people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#m1)

2) Popularity is how many people use or choose something, as in the popularity of a sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school life children notice popularity among friends; in ethics, pupils learn that kindness matters more than being popular. In maths and data lessons, bar charts show the popularity of foods or pets. Phrases: «grow in popularity», «a popularity contest», «gain popularity», «lose popularity».

### examples

- Football has huge popularity in many countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#x1)
- We made a bar chart to show the popularity of different fruits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#x2)
- The new game grew in popularity very quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#x3)
- The king lost popularity when he raised taxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#x4)
- It's not a popularity contest; choose the best person for the job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#x5)
- The popularity of cycling rose when the new path opened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#x6)
- Yet it won a wide popularity, as is shown by the fact that there was a seventh edition published in 1795, for J. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. From «popular». Trap: popularity does not mean something is good or right. Maths link: in a survey, the most popular choice is the mode (the one chosen most often).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «popularity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popularity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.