Welcome to Clairstone! In this episode, you will learn how to use the English words "popular" and "majority".

TRANSCRIPT:

Hello everyone, my name is Jasmine, and you are listening to the English ClAIRSTONE Podcast, where you can build the cornerstone of your English vocabulary! For all our new listeners, welcome to the community, and for our regulars, hello again! Before we start, I will remind you that we upload new episodes twice a week and there are transcripts for each podcast episode in English, Arabic, and Spanish at our website projectclair.org, so go check that out if you want to follow along!

Today we will look at the words “popular” and “majority”

The word “popular,” spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-R, is an adjective that means to be frequent or often relating to the public or a large number of people. If something is “popular,” it is widely accepted or seen. For example, a “popular brand” is a brand of store that many people like to go to or buy from. Anything “popular” is the opinion or liking of the majority or more than 50% of people in a group.

The next word today “majority,” spelled M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y, is a noun. The word “majority” means a number of people in a group that is equal to more than 50% of the total number of people in the group. A “majority” is the greater part of a group in number. An example sentence is, “The board decided that a majority was needed to make a decision.” Another definition of the word “majority” is the age when full civil rights are given to a person in a nation. This means, for example, that in the U.S. the age of “majority” is 18 years old, that is when they get their own full civil rights.

Well, that is it for today’s episode! This was the Clairstone Podcast, and for the full transcript for all our episodes, you can click on the info icon on our platform or go to our website projectclair.org. I hope you will start to use the words “popular” and “majority” in your English practice, and I will see you next time! Bye, everyone!