People
['piːp(ə)l] or ['pipl]
Definition
(noun.) (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; 'old people'; 'there were at least 200 people in the audience'.
(noun.) members of a family line; 'his people have been farmers for generations'; 'are your people still alive?'.
(verb.) fill with people; 'Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes'.
(verb.) furnish with people; 'The plains are sparsely populated'.
Inputed by Lewis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
(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.
(n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
(n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
(n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
(v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Tribe, nation, race, clan, family.[2]. Population, folks, persons, the public, the community, the bulk of mankind.[3]. Commonalty, populace, CANAILLE, rabble, mob, the vulgar, vulgar herd, lower classes, humbler classes, the multitude, the million, the peasantry, the masses.
v. a. Populate.
Typist: Millie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nation, community, populace, mob, crowd, vulgar, herd, mass, persons,inhabitants, commonalty, fellow-creatures, tribe, race
ANT:Aristocracy, nobility, government, ruler, oligarchy
Checker: Louie
Definition
n. persons generally: the men women and children of a country or a nation: the mass of persons as distinguished from the rulers &c.: an indefinite number: inhabitants: the vulgar: the populace:—pl. Peoples (pē′plz) races tribes.—v.t. to stock with people or inhabitants.—People's palace an institution for the amusement recreation and association of the working-classes as that in the East End of London inaugurated in 1887.—Chosen people the Israelites; Good people or folk a popular euphemistic name for the fairies; Peculiar people (see Peculiar); The people the populace the mass.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
See Crowd.
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Examples
- The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What a fine town but how the _buena gente_, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- People will pay as freely to gratify one passion as another, their resentment as their pride. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- These good people were absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I can't allow people in my way. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Or her taste for peculiar people, put in Mrs. Archer in a dry tone, while her eyes dwelt innocently on her son's. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a time one of these peoples, the Khitan, prevailed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Regardless of the foolish belief of the peoples of the outer world, or of Holy Thern, or ebon First Born, I am not dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But the Aryans, as we shall see later, were probably not the first peoples to take to the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Luxembourg was included in the German Confederation, though its ruler was also King of the Netherlands, and though many of its peoples talked French. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The moving spirit in this conspiracy of governments against peoples was the Austrian statesman, Metternich. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Prompted by curiosity, he broke open other shells and the peopling of Barsoom commenced. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In his imagination he saw his house peopled by the nobs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A second followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, and ultimately the whole barrow was peopled with burdened figures. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not every city is so well peopled as this, or has so ample an area within its walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tomorrow's sun will look down upon a dead world which through all eternity must go swinging through the heavens peopled not even by memories. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We talked of what might arise on this desert earth, if, two or three being saved, it were slowly re-peopled. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Several times we passed the entrances to other chambers similarly peopled, and twice again we were compelled to cross directly through them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If, therefore, I could seize him, and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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