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POPULIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does populist mean?
• POPULIST (noun)
The noun POPULIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite
Familiarity information: POPULIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("populist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Derivation:
populism (the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite)
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