An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
POPULACE
populace, public, world
(noun) people in general considered as a whole; “he is a hero in the eyes of the public”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
populace (countable and uncountable, plural populaces)
The common people of a nation.
The inhabitants of a nation.
Usage notes
• Do not confuse populace (a noun) with populous (an adjective).
Synonyms
• (common people of a nation): common people, hoi polloi, masses, people, rabble, riff-raff
• (inhabitants of a nation): inhabitants, population
Source: Wiktionary
Pop"u*lace, n. Etym: [F. populace, fr. It. popolaccio, popolazzo, fr. popolo people, L. populus. See People.]
Definition: The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.
Syn.
– Mob; people; commonalty.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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