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Meaning of 'people' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . People [ n.]
- The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
- Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
- The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
- One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
- One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
2 . People [ v. t.]
- To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Meaning of 'people' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . people [ n]
Meaning (1):
- members of a family line
Example in sentence:
  • are your people still alive?;
  • his people have been farmers for generations
Meaning (2):
- (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Example in sentence:
  • old people;
  • there were at least 200 people in the audience
Meaning (3):
- the common people generally
Example in sentence:
  • power to the people;
  • separate the warriors from the mass
Meaning (4):
- the body of citizens of a state or country
Example in sentence:
  • the Spanish people
5 . people [ v]
Meaning (5):
- fill with people
Example in sentence:
  • Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes
Meaning (6):
- furnish with people
Example in sentence:
  • The plains are sparsely populated

Nearby Words:

peon peonage peonies peonism peony peopled peopleless peopler peopling peoplish

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