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| 1. | [ noun ] (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively | |
| Examples: | "old people" "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
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| 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 plural | |
| 2. | [ noun ] the body of citizens of a state or country | |
| Synonyms: | citizenry | |
| Examples: | "the Spanish people" |
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| Related terms: | group governed electorate citizen dwell | |
| 3. | [ noun ] the common people generally | |
| Synonyms: | mass masses hoi_polloi multitude | |
| Examples: | "separate the warriors from the mass" "power to the people" |
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| Related terms: | group audience laity following dwell | |
| 4. | [ noun ] members of a family line | |
| Examples: | "his people have been farmers for generations" "are your people still alive?" |
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| Related terms: | family | |
| 5. | [ verb ] fill with people or supply with inhabitants | |
| Synonyms: | populate | |
| Examples: | "people a room" "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country" |
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| Related terms: | fill population | |
| 6. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 13191 | |
| 7. | [ [Undefined_variable] ] pronoun, second or third person plural, impersonal | |
| Synonyms: | they you we one | |
| 8. | [ verb ] (housing) make one's home or live in | |
| Synonyms: | live reside populate dwell inhabit domicile domiciliate shack | |
| 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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| Related terms: | be occupy camp lodge board cohabit rusticate neighbor overpopulate live_in live_out dwelling population resident inhabitant hovel residency inhabitancy liver | |
| Similar spelling: |
peephole Peppel peepul Pebley pebble Peffley pep_pill |
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