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people
/ˈpi.pəl/
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What does people mean?
noun
- plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
- Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
- A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
More meanings (8)
noun
- One's colleagues or employees.
- A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
- The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
- People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
verb
- To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
- To become populous or populated.
- To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
- (informal, rare) To interact with people; to socialize.
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IPA pronunciation
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The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each.
And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Ivar had never learned to speak English and his Norwegian was quaint and grave, like the speech of the more old-fashioned people.
“If I cared for your love as much as I used to I could say people had turned to look at mine.”