people

people is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
2. noun. 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. noun. The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
4. noun. One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
5. noun. One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
6. transitive verb. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
7. noun. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

   "old people"

   "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

8. noun. members of a family line

   "his people have been farmers for generations"

   "are your people still alive?"

9. noun. the body of citizens of a state or country

   "the Spanish people"

   Synonyms: citizenry

10. noun. the common people generally

    "separate the warriors from the mass"

    "power to the people"

    Synonyms: mass, masses, multitude

11. verb. fill with people

    "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"

12. verb. furnish with people

    "The plains are sparsely populated"

Synonyms

citizenry, mass, masses, multitude

Common word forms

peopled, peopler, peoples, peopling, peopleize, peopleless, peoplement

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