Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Any genre of music that has wide appeal amongst the general public of a society, typically distributed widely by the music industry; typically as seen in contrast to classical music and folk music.

    populäre Musik

    популя́рная му́зыкаpopuljárnaja múzyka, поп-му́зыкаpop-múzyka, попpop

    any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)

  2. (uncountable, usually)Synonym of pop music.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. I want to listen to popular music.

  2. Young people like popular music.

  3. Tom is quite knowledgeable about modern popular music.

    deTom ist bezüglich der modernen Unterhaltungsmusik recht kenntnisreich. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Some people like classical music, while others like popular music.

    deDen einen gefällt klassische, den anderen Unterhaltungsmusik. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. As is often the case with educated people, he likes classical music better than popular music.

    deWie bei gebildeten Leuten oft der Fall, hört er lieber klassische als Populärmusik. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music:

Forms

plural: popular musics
Singularpopular music

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time):popular music genre

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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