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- 1 plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. countable, form-of, plural, uncountable
"There were so many people at the restaurant last night."
- 2 (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively wordnet
- 3 Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc. collective, countable
"a people apart"
- 4 members of a family line wordnet
- 5 A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader. countable, uncountable
"Moses said, "Let my people go.""
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- 6 the body of citizens of a state or country wordnet
- 7 One's colleagues or employees. countable, uncountable
"I'll have my people call your people."
- 8 the common people generally wordnet
- 9 A person's ancestors, relatives or family. countable, uncountable
"My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War."
- 10 The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens. countable, uncountable
"The people have successfully stood up against tyranny and totalitarianism."
- 11 People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional. countable, uncountable
"People don't like it when you tweak their noses."
- 1 To interact with people; to socialize. informal, rare
"I don't people well.” “Not peopling well is a crap excuse,” I retorted, and started to step around him, but a sudden thought occurred to me."
- 2 To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. transitive
"He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man."
- 3 fill with people wordnet
- 4 To become populous or populated. intransitive
- 5 furnish with people wordnet
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- 6 To inhabit; to occupy; to populate. transitive
"[…] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]"
Etymology
From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk. Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.
From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk. Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.
From Middle English peplen, peuplien, partly from Middle French peupler (from peuple (“people”)) and partly from the noun (etymology 1).
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