Populist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Populist \Pop"u*list\, n. [L. populus people + -ist.] (U. S.
     Politics)
     A member of the People's party. -- {Pop`u*lis"tic}, a.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  populist
       n : an advocate of democratic principles [syn: {democrat}]

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  POPULIST, n.  A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found
  in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an
  uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the
  power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing
  independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he
  possessed it he would have gone elsewhere.  In the picturesque speech
  of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was
  known as "The Matter with Kansas."