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verbs
enjoy popularity
(= be popular )
• The band enjoyed great popularity in the 1980s.
achieve popularity
(= become popular )
• Her books achieved tremendous popularity on both sides of the Atlantic.
gain/grow/increase in popularity
• Extreme sports are growing in popularity.
court popularity
(= try to be popular by pleasing people )
• It is tempting for politicians to court popularity.
somebody's popularity soars
(= increases by a large amount )
• Opinion polls showed that his popularity had soared to a record level.
something's popularity declines
• As fashions changed, their popularity declined.
adjectives
great popularity
• His great popularity with British audiences dates from that period.
enormous/tremendous/immense popularity
• the enormous popularity of Coca-Cola
widespread/wide popularity
(= with a lot of people, or in many places )
• Astrology enjoyed widespread popularity.
growing/increasing/rising popularity
• This may be the key to explaining Celtic music's increasing popularity.
continuing/enduring popularity
• Today, the novel enjoys enduring popularity and ranks among the USA's top-selling books.
personal popularity
• While these changes were controversial, his personal popularity remained high.
political popularity
• The sagging economy has seriously damaged his political popularity.
popularity + NOUN
a popularity contest
(= competition to find who the most popular person is )
• All election campaigns are popularity contests to some degree.
a popularity poll
(= survey to find how popular someone is )
• In most popularity polls, he is in fourth or fifth place.
somebody's popularity rating
(= how popular someone is according to a poll )
• His popularity rating dropped quite dramatically after the events of last year.
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noun ADJ. enormous, great, huge, immense, massive, widespread | growing, increasing | dwindling | continued, continuing | personal | current VERB + POPULARITY achieve, win | deserve The film deserves its popularity. | court She is a tough decision-maker who does not court popularity. | enjoy | gain (in), grow in Organic produce appears to be gaining in popularity. | retain | regain POPULARITY + VERB grow | decline, wane POPULARITY + NOUN rating | stakes They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes. PREP. ~ among/amongst The current system has never enjoyed popularity among teachers. | ~ with She enjoys huge popularity with the voters. PHRASES a decline/drop in popularity, an increase/a rise/a surge/an upsurge in popularity the recent upsurge in the popularity of folk music | the peak of (sb/sth's) popularity At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary