populace
pop yuh luhs
- n people in general considered as a whole
- As the Japanese columns swung into Chinchow it was fun to see the Chinese populace, yellow if ever a populace was, waving Japanese flags hastily home-made during the night to .
- Ability to deal unobtrusively with the local populace .
- On releasing him into Chinese hands in July 1950, the Soviets heightened the ex-monarch's fears, assuring him that he would be executed by a wrathful populace.