"Popular to" someone or "popular with" someone?

word-choice prepositions american-english
  • The teacher is popular to his student
  • The teacher is popular with his student

Which one is correct & why?


Solution 1:

Both are wrong. Being "popular" is a statistical property of a group. It means that the majority of members of a group have a positive opinion. So a teacher can be popular with his students, but not with just one student (and in this case, "with" is the proper word.)

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