PEOPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does people mean? 

• PEOPLE (noun)
  The noun PEOPLE has 4 senses:

1. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
2. the body of citizens of a state or country
3. the common people generally
4. members of a family line

  Familiarity information: PEOPLE used as a noun is uncommon.

• PEOPLE (verb)
  The verb PEOPLE has 2 senses:

1. fill with people or supply with inhabitants
2. furnish with people

  Familiarity information: PEOPLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEOPLE (noun)

Meaning:

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context examples:

old people / there were at least 200 people in the audience

Hypernyms ("people" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Meronyms (members of "people"):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "people"):

chosen people (any people believing themselves to be chosen by God)

country; land; nation (the people who live in a nation or country)

class; social class; socio-economic class (people having the same social or economic status)

migration (a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period))

maimed; wounded (people who are wounded)

tradespeople (people engaged in trade)

sick (people who are sick)

retreated (people who have retreated)

pocket (a small isolated group of people)

peanut gallery ((figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance))

nationality (people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation)

poor; poor people (people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group))

rich; rich people (people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group))

populace; public; world (people in general considered as a whole)

womankind (women as distinguished from men)

unemployed; unemployed people (people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group))

unconfessed (people who have not confessed)

smart money (people who are highly experienced or who have inside information)

rank and file (people who constitute the main body of any group)

business; clientele; patronage (customers collectively)

lobby (the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest)

coevals; contemporaries; generation (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)

community (a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common)

population (the people who inhabit a territory or state)

network army (a group of like-minded people united by the internet; a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern)

mentally retarded; retarded (people collectively who are mentally retarded)

damned (people who are condemned to eternal punishment)

business people; businesspeople (people who transact business (especially business executives))

cautious; timid (people who are fearful and cautious)

brave (people who are brave)

blood (people viewed as members of a group)

blind (people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group)

baffled (people who are frustrated and perplexed)

ancients (people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe))

age bracket; age group; cohort (a group people having approximately the same age)

peoples (the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group)

defeated; discomfited (people who are defeated)

dead (people who are no longer living)

living (people who are still living)

uninitiate (people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity)

enlightened; initiate (people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity)

homebound (people who are confined to their homes)

free; free people (people who are free)

common people; folk; folks (people in general (often used in the plural))

episcopacy; episcopate (the collective body of bishops)

enemy (any hostile group of people)

doomed; lost (people who are destined to die soon)

disabled; handicapped (people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped)

deaf (people who have severe hearing impairments)

Holonyms ("people" is a member of...):

human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth)

Meaning:

The body of citizens of a state or country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

citizenry; people

Context example:

the Spanish people

Hypernyms ("people" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Meronyms (members of "people"):

citizen (a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "people"):

governed (the body of people who are citizens of a particular government)

electorate (the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote)

country people; countryfolk (people living in the same country; compatriots)

Meaning:

The common people generally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hoi polloi; the great unwashed; masses; people; multitude; mass

Context examples:

separate the warriors from the mass / power to the people

Hypernyms ("people" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "people"):

laity; temporalty (in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy)

audience (the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment)

followers; following (a group of followers or enthusiasts)

Meaning:

Members of a family line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context examples:

his people have been farmers for generations / are your people still alive?

Hypernyms ("people" is a kind of...):

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)

• PEOPLE (verb)

Meaning:

Fill with people or supply with inhabitants

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

people; populate

Context examples:

people a room / The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country

Hypernyms (to "people" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Meaning:

Furnish with people

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

populate; people

Context example:

The plains are sparsely populated

Hypernyms (to "people" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live (inhabit or live in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "people"):

overpopulate (cause to have too great a population)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP