Definitions for People
ˈpi pəlPeo·ple

Princeton's WordNet(3.55 / 9 votes)Rate this definition:

1. peoplenoun

   (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, peoplenoun

   the body of citizens of a state or country

   "the Spanish people"

3. peoplenoun

   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 unwashedverb

   the common people generally

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

5. peopleverb

   fill with people

   "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"

6. peopleverb

   furnish with people

   "The plains are sparsely populated"

Wiktionary(3.40 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. peoplenoun

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

2. peoplenoun

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

3. peoplenoun

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

4. peoplenoun

   One's colleagues or employees.

5. peoplenoun

   A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

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

6. peoplenoun

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

7. peopleverb

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

8. peopleverb

   To become populous or populated.

9. peopleverb

   To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

10. Etymology: 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).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Peoplenoun

   Etymology: peuple, Fr. populus, Lat.

   1. A nation; these who compose a community.

   Prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues. Revelations x. 11.

   Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in summer. Proverbs xxx. 25.

   What is the city but the people?
   True the people are the city. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   2. The vulgar.

   The knowing artist may
   Judge better than the people, but a play
   Made for delight,
   If you approve it not, has no excuse. Edmund Waller.

   3. The commonalty; not the princes or nobles.4. Persons of a particular class.

   If a man temper his actions to content every combination of people, the musick will be the fuller. Francis Bacon.

   A small red flower in the stubble fields country people call the wincopipe. Francis Bacon.

   5. Men, or persons in general. In this sense, the word people is used indefinitely, like on in French.

   The frogs petitioning for a king, bids people have a care of struggling with heaven. Roger L'Estrange.

   People were tempted to lend by great premiums and large interest. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies.

   Watery liquor will keep an animal from starving by diluting the fluids; for people have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

   People in adversity should preserve laudable customs. Clarissa.

2. To Peopleverb

   To stock with inhabitants.

   Etymology: peupler, French.

   Suppose that Brute, or whosoever else that first peopled this island, had arrived upon Thames, and called the island after his name Britannia. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

   He would not be alone, who all things can;
   But peopled Heav’n with angels, earth with man. Dryden.

   Beauty a monarch is,
   Which kingly power magnificently proves
   By crouds of slaves, and peopled empire loves. Dryden.

   A peopl’d city made a desert place. Dryden.

   Imperious death directs his ebon lance;
   Peoples great Henry’s tombs, and leads up Holben’s dance. Matthew Prior.

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

1. Peoplenoun

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

2. Peoplenoun

   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. Peoplenoun

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

4. Peoplenoun

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

5. Peoplenoun

   one's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers

6. Peopleverb

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

7. Etymology: [Cf. OF. popler, puepler, F. puepler. Cf. Populate.]

Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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(3.00 / 1 vote)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.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. people

   All human beings as a collective.

   People are amazing and interesting to learn from.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 6, 2020  

2. ---

   people

   Plural form of the word person.

   People are amazing to communicate with and share food and time with.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on October 2, 2020  

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1. people

   Song lyrics by people -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by people on the Lyrics.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Dwell
   • Family
   • Group
   • Populate

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

How to pronounce People?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say People in sign language?

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. Alejo Morales:

   We had a lot of friends that came through and helped us, we started getting phone calls and( more) phone calls, and people just started piling up and getting the horses( out).

2. Tom Hardin:

   People are going through much worse than I am, i guess I'm at peace with what happened.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   To suggest we don't fight this out to the end would be, I think, a very bad mistake. People want to become engaged in the political process by having vigorous primary and caucus process. I think we open up the possibility of having a large voter turnout in November. That is exactly what we need, a low voter turnout, somebody like a Trump can win. High voter turnout, the Democratic candidate will win.

4. Nathan Runkle:

   The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.

5. Kahlil Gibran:

   In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

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