What is the meaning of popular?

adjective

• Regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public.
  • usage: "a popular tourist attraction"; "a popular girl"; "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"
• Carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large.
  • usage: "the popular vote"; "popular representation"; "institutions of popular government"
• Representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large.
  • usage: "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction"
  • synonyms: democratic
• Of music or art. ( new and of general appeal (especially among young people)).
  • synonyms: pop