- 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. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 4. n. One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English. Source: opted
- 5. n. One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. Source: opted
- 6. v. t. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. Source: opted
- 7. n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively Source: wordnet
- 8. n. the body of citizens of a state or country Source: wordnet
- 9. n. members of a family line Source: wordnet
- 10. n. the common people generally Source: wordnet
- 11. v. fill with people Source: wordnet
- 12. v. furnish with people Source: wordnet
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