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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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  1. n. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. n. One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
  5. n. One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
  6. v. t. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
  7. n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
  8. n. the body of citizens of a state or country
  9. n. members of a family line
  10. n. the common people generally
  11. v. fill with people
  12. v. furnish with people