"popular music" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: popular musics [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} popular music (usually uncountable, plural popular musics)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music): مُوسِيقَى الْبُوب (mūsīqā l-būb) [feminine] (Arabic), بُوب (būb) [masculine] (Arabic), بُوب (pop) [masculine] (Arabic), попула́рна му́зика (populárna múzyka) [feminine] (Carpathian Rusyn), 流行音樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 流行音乐 (liúxíng yīnyuè) (Chinese Mandarin), populaarimusiikki (Finnish), pop (Finnish), pop-musiikki (Finnish), musique populaire [feminine] (French), música popular [feminine] (Galician), პოპულარული მუსიკა (ṗoṗularuli musiḳa) (Georgian), პოპ-მუსიკა (ṗoṗ-musiḳa) (Georgian), პოპი (ṗoṗi) (Georgian), populäre Musik [feminine] (German), könnyűzene (Hungarian), musica popolare [feminine] (Italian), ポピュラー音楽 (popyurā ongaku) (alt: ポピュラーおんがく) (Japanese), ポピュラー・ミュージック (popyurā-myūjikku) (Japanese), 대중음악 (daejung'eumak) (Korean), 팝 음악 (pap eumak) (Korean), puoro arotini (Maori), populærmusikk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), populærmusikk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), música popular [feminine] (Portuguese), популя́рная му́зыка (populjárnaja múzyka) [feminine] (Russian), поп-му́зыка (pop-múzyka) [feminine] (Russian), поп (pop) [masculine] (Russian), попса́ (popsá) [feminine, slang] (Russian), música popular (Spanish), populärmusik (Swedish), nhạc đại chúng (Vietnamese), nhạc phổ thông (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music': 48 52

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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "populærmusikk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "música popular"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "populjárnaja múzyka",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "популя́рная му́зыка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pop-múzyka",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "поп-му́зыка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pop",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "поп"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "popsá",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "попса́"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "word": "música popular"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "word": "populärmusik"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "word": "nhạc đại chúng"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public — see also pop music",
      "word": "nhạc phổ thông"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "popular music"
  ],
  "word": "popular music"
}

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