Thesaurus: people
The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
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Definitions
- n. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
- n. 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.
- n. The mass of comunity as class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/distinguished">distinguished from a class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/special">special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
- n. One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
- n. One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
- v. t. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
- n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
- n. the body of citizens of a state or country
- n. members of a family line
- n. the common people generally
- v. fill with people
- v. furnish with people