1. (noun)people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
"old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
2. (noun)citizenry, people the body of citizens of a state or country "the Spanish people"
3. (noun)people members of a familyline "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
4. (noun)multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed the commonpeople generally
"separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
5. (verb)people fill with people "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"
6. (verb)people furnish with people "The plains are sparsely populated"