how to pronounce populist

/ˈpɒp.jə.lɪst/

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populist is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of populist in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… political here he is a populist leader …”

meanings of populist

noun:

A person who advocates democratic principles.
A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.

adjective:

Of or pertaining to populism.
Democratic.
Put forward just because it would be popular.

populist frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word populist occurs in english on average 2.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics populist can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that populist can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;