people
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
people
- Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
- Synonyms: peeps, lede, leod
- Why do so many people commit suicide?
- c. 1607, plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods:
- XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
- (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
- Synonyms: collective, community, congregation, folk
- 1966, Dick Tuck, Concession Speech:
- The people have spoken, the bastards.
- A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
- Synonyms: fans, groupies, supporters
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, 2 Books of Samuel 8:15:
- And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
- 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Book of Isaiah 1:3:
- The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
- One's colleagues or employees.
- A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
- Synonyms: kin, kith, folks
- My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
- The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
- Synonyms: populace, commoners, citizenry
- plural form of person.
- French: gens
- German: Leute, Menschen
- Italian: gente
- Portuguese: pessoas, gente
- Russian: лю́ди
- Spanish: gente
- French: mien
- German: Familie, Verwandten, Angehörigen
- Italian: famiglia
- Portuguese: família
- Russian: родня́
- Spanish: familia
- French: peuple
- German: Volk
- Italian: popolo, popolazione
- Portuguese: povo
- Russian: наро́д
- Spanish: pueblo
people (peoples, present participle peopling; past and past participle peopled)
- (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
- 1674, John Dryden, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100615070614/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/stateinn.html The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man], Act II, Scene I:
- He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man.
- 1674, John Dryden, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100615070614/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/stateinn.html The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man], Act II, Scene I:
- (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
- (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
- ante 1645 John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
- […] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]
- ante 1645 John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
- French: peupler
- German: bevölkern
- Italian: popolare con
- Portuguese: povoar
- Russian: населя́ть
- Spanish: poblar con
- French: se peupler
- Portuguese: povoar-se
- Spanish: poblarse
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