people

Definitions

1. 1noun

   The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.

4. 4noun

   One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.

5. 5noun

   One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.

6. 6transitive verb

   To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

7. 7noun

   (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

   "old people"

   "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

8. 8noun

   members of a family line

   "his people have been farmers for generations"

   "are your people still alive?"

9. 9noun

   the body of citizens of a state or country

   "the Spanish people"

   Synonyms

   citizenry
10. 10noun

    the common people generally

    "separate the warriors from the mass"

    "power to the people"

    Synonyms

    massmassesmultitude
11. 11verb

    fill with people

    "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"

12. 12verb

    furnish with people

    "The plains are sparsely populated"