{
  "id": "popular.social",
  "term": "popular",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "popular",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When many people like a thing and it is regular, the thing is seen by many.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "interest.psychological",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "People together like the thing and it becomes regular among them.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective preference",
      "mass visibility"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Beatlemania swept across the UK in 1963, with crowds of over 10,000 gathering to see The Beatles at venues like the Cavern Club.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "Minecraft had over 140 million monthly active users by 2020, making it one of the most played video games in the world.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Toyota Corolla became the best-selling car globally by 2016, with over 44 million units sold since 1966.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "usual.common",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "popular",
    "popularly"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-popular.social"
}