Definitions for People
ˈpi pəlPeo·ple

Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. people(noun)

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

   "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

2. citizenry, people(noun)

   the body of citizens of a state or country

   "the Spanish people"

3. people(noun)

   members of a family line

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

4. multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed(verb)

   the common people generally

   "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

5. people(verb)

   fill with people

   "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"

6. people(verb)

   furnish with people

   "The plains are sparsely populated"

Wiktionary(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. people(Noun)

   ; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

2. people(Noun)

   (plural peoples) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; community.

3. people(Noun)

   A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

4. people(Noun)

   One's colleagues or employees.

5. people(Noun)

   A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

   My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.

6. people(Noun)

   The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

7. people(Verb)

   To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

8. people(Verb)

   To become populous or populated.

9. people(Verb)

   To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

Origin: From peple, peple, from people, from pueple, pople (modern peuple), from populus "people", of unknown origin. Probably of non-Indo-European origin, from . Gradually ousted native leed (from leode).

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. People(noun)

   the body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation

2. People(noun)

   persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity

3. People(noun)

   the mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people

4. People(noun)

   one's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English

5. People(noun)

   one's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers

6. People(verb)

   to stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate

Origin: [Cf. OF. popler, puepler, F. puepler. Cf. Populate.]

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1. People

   People is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine. People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on Adweek's "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006. The magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. People's editors claim to refrain from printing pure celebrity gossip, enough so to lead celebrity publicists to propose exclusives to the magazine, evidence of what one staffer calls a "publicist-friendly strategy". People's website, People.com, focuses exclusively on celebrity news. In February 2007, the website drew 39.6 million page views "within a day" of the Golden Globes. However "the mother ship of Oscar coverage" broke a site record with 51.7 million page views on the day after the Oscars, beating the previous record set just a month before from the Golden Globes.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. People

   pē′pl, n. persons generally: the men, women, and children of a country or a nation: the mass of persons as distinguished from the rulers, &c.: an indefinite number: inhabitants: the vulgar: the populace:—pl. Peoples (pē′plz), races, tribes.—v.t. to stock with people or inhabitants.—People's palace, an institution for the amusement, recreation, and association of the working-classes, as that in the East End of London, inaugurated in 1887.—Chosen people, the Israelites; Good people, or folk, a popular euphemistic name for the fairies; Peculiar people (see Peculiar); The people, the populace, the mass. [Fr. peuple—L. populus, prob. reduplicated from root of plebs, people.]

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1. people

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'People' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #86

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'People' in Written Corpus Frequency: #85

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'People' in Nouns Frequency: #3

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of People in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of People in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of People in a Sentence

1. Bill Clinton:

   A lot of people are.

2. Neil Gorsuch:

   I know these people.

3. Officer Chris Denshuick:

   He's a people's Pope.

4. Jean-Paul Sartre:

   Hell is other people.

5. Tarkaoui Oussama:

   Cheap, people can be.

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