Definition of peaple
1. people [ n ] (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Examples:
"old people"
"there were at least 200 people in the audience"
(The Dallas Morning News,...)
`` But I believe if people were better informed on this question , most_of them would oppose it also .
Rep._James_Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water_development bill passed by the Texas House_of_Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort_Worth to cover_up places like Paradise , a Wise_County hamlet of 250 people .
`` We must solve the problems which have forced these people to depend_upon ADC for subsistence '' , Martin said .
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)
`` You often hear people talk_about team_spirit and that sort of thing '' , Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies , `` but what this team had was a_little different .
(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)
People who take us for suckers are like the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form of a number of bull's-eye achievements .
Synonyms people Related Terms group nation populace population folk dead coevals community class enemy blind blood_group disabled living damned deaf doomed unconfessed clientele age_group homebound timid mentally_retarded uninitiate sick retreated baffled wounded defeated rank_and_file smart_money brave blood chosen_people business_people womankind network_army initiate homeless free pocket ancients migration peanut_gallery world person plural2. people [ n ] the body of citizens of a state or country
Examples:
"the Spanish people"
(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)
A heterogeneous people have needed it to attain an element of cultural and political cohesion in a new and ever_changing land .
That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant .
Synonyms people citizenry Related Terms group governed electorate citizen dwell3. people [ n ] the common people generally
Examples:
"separate the warriors from the mass"
"power to the people"
(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)
Linguists have not always been more enlightened than `` practical people '' and sometimes have insisted on incredibly trivial points while neglecting things of much greater significance .
Synonyms people mass masses hoi_polloi multitude Related Terms group audience laity following dwell4. people [ n ] members of a family line
Examples:
"his people have been farmers for generations"
"are your people still alive?"
(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)
The Skopas people seemed to him of that breed of human_beings whose insularity frees them from tragedy .
Synonyms people Related Terms family5. people [ v ] fill with people or supply with inhabitants
Examples:
"people a room"
"The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)
When , therefore , it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit , these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality .
Synonyms people populate Related Terms fill population6. People [ n ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 13191
Synonyms People7. people [ o ] pronoun, second or third person plural, impersonal
Synonyms they you people we one8. people [ v ] make one's home or live in
Examples:
"There are only 250,000 people in Iceland"
"I live in a 200-year old house"
"These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"
"The plains are sparsely populated"
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