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English

{{rank|here|thought|found|140|people|still|just|while}}

Etymology

, from (French , Spanish , from , related to ///).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /piːpəl/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-people.ogg
  • :
  • Hyphenation: peo·ple


Noun

  1. A body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
  2. (plural peoples) A group of persons forming or belonging to a particular nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; community.
  3. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
  4. * 1611, w:Old Testament|Old Testament, w:King James Version of the Bible|King James Version, 2 Samuel 8:15,
  5. *: And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.1
  6. * 1952, w:Old Testament|Old Testament, w:Revised Standard Version|Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:15,
  7. *: So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.2
  8. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
  9. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
  10. {{plural of|perſon#English|perſon|nodot=1}} {{i|an archaic alternative spelling of person#English|person}}.


Derived terms


Synonyms


Translations

  • Afrikaans: mense
  • Arabic: (nās)
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|ljudi|p}}
  • Breton: tud
  • Catalan: gent
  • Chinese: 人們, 人们 (rénmen)
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|ljudi|p}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|lid|m}}, {{t+|cs|lidé|p}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|mensen|p}}, {{t+|nl|lui|p}}, {{t+|nl|volk|n}}, {{t+|nl|personen|p}}
  • Esperanto: {{t+|eo|homoj|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Estonian: inimesed
  • Finnish: , {{t-|fi|ihmiset|p}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|gens|p}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Leute|p}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|κόσμος|m|tr=kósmos|sc=Grek}}, {{t+|el|άνθρωποι|m|p|tr=ànthropi|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: אנשים (anashim)
  • Hindi: लोग (log)
  • Hungarian:
  • Interlingua: personas
  • Italian: {{t+|it|gente|f}}
  • Japanese: 人々 (hitobito), 人達 (hitotachi)
  • Korean: 사람들 (saramdeul)
  • Kurdish:
  • : Sorani: {{t|ku|خه‌ڵک|tr=xellk|sc=KUchar}}
  • Latin: {{t+|la|populus|m}}, {{t+|la|gens|f|alt=gēns}}
  • Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|žmonės|m|p|xs=Lithuanian}}
  • Malay: {{t+|ms|orang|xs=Malay}}
  • Maori: {{t-|mi|tangata|xs=Maori}}
  • Mongolian: {{t-|mn|ард|sc=Cyrl|xs=Mongolian}}
  • Old English: {{t-|ang|menn|m|p|xs=Old English}}, {{t-|ang|weras|m|p|xs=Old English}}, {{t-|ang|folc|n|xs=Old English}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|ludzie|p}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pessoas|f|p}}, {{t+|pt|gente|f}}
  • Punjabi: ਲੋਕ (lōk)
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|oameni|m}}
  • Russian: люди (ljúdi) , люд (ljud) (obsolete)
  • Scots: fowk
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: људи
  • : Roman: ljudi
  • Slovak: ľudia, ľud
  • Slovene: ljudje
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|gente|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|folk|n}}
  • Telugu: ప్రజలు (prajalu)
  • Tetum: ema
  • Turkish:
  • Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|nhân dân|xs=Vietnamese}}
  • Welsh: pobl
  • Zulu: abantu
  • Afrikaans: volk
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|narod|m}}
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|narod|m}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|lid|m}}, {{t+|cs|lidé|p}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|volk|n}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|popolo|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: {{t+|fr|peuple|m}}
  • German: Volk (plural Völker)
  • Greek: {{t+|el|λαός|m|sc=Grek}} (laós), {{t+|el|κόσμος|m|sc=Grek}} (kósmos), {{t|el|έθνος|n|sc=Grek}} (éthnos)
  • Hebrew: עם (am)
  • Hungarian:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|popolo|m}}, {{t+|it|nazione|f}}
  • Japanese: 国民 (kokumin), 民族 (minzoku)
  • Kurdish:
  • : Sorani: {{t|ku|گه‌ل|tr=gel|sc=KUchar}}, {{t|ku|مله‌ت|tr=milet|sc=KUchar}}
  • Latin: {{t+|la|gens|f}}
  • Lithuanian: tauta , liaudis
  • Maori: {{t-|mi|tangata|xs=Maori}}
  • Mazandarani: {{tø|mzn|به‏نه‏وار|tr=benevár|sc=fa-Arab}}
  • Old English: {{t-|ang|folc|n|xs=Old English}}, {{t-|ang|dryht|f|xs=Old English}}, {{t-|ang|leode|f|p|alt=lēode|xs=Old English}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|naród|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|povo|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|народ|m|tr=naród|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|нация|f|tr=nácija|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Scots: fowk
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: народ
  • : Roman: narod
  • Slovene:
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|pueblo|m}}
  • Swedish: folk , folkslag
  • Yiddish: פֿאָלק (folk)
  • Afrikaans: mense
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|mensen|p}}, {{t+|nl|volk|n}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|popolo|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|ludzie|p}}, {{t+|pl|naród|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|folk|n}}
  • Afrikaans: familie
  • Dutch: familie , verwanten
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|gento|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • German: Familie , Verwandten , Angehörigen
  • Greek: {{t|el|σόι|n|sc=Grek}} (sói), {{t|el|δικοί του|m|p|sc=Grek}} (dikoí tou)
  • Italian: {{t+|it|famiglia|f}}
  • Japanese: 家族 (kazoku), 先祖 (senzo)
  • Kurdish:
  • : Sorani: {{t|ku|باو باپیران|tr=baw bapîran|sc=KUchar}}
  • Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|giminė|f|xs=Lithuanian}}, {{t+|lt|šeima|f|xs=Lithuanian}}
  • Old English: {{t-|ang|cynn|n|xs=Old English}}
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|ogół|m}}
  • Russian: родня (rodnjá, colloquial|colloq.)
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|družina|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|familia|f}}
  • Swedish: släkt , anhörig
  • Afrikaans: volk
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|lid|m}}, {{t+|cs|lidé|p}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|volk|n}}, {{t+|nl|massa|f}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|popolo|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|peuple|m}}
  • Greek: {{t|el|μάζες|f|p|sc=Grek}} (mázes), {{t+|el|λαός|m|sc=Grek}} (laós)
  • Japanese: 一般人 (ippanjin)
  • Latin: {{t+|la|populus|m}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|ludzie|p}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|povo|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|народ|m|tr=naród|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|pueblo|m}}
  • Swedish: folk (most commonly in definite form folket)

Verb

  1. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
  2. : "He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled heaven with angels, earth with man." — Dryden
  3. To become populous or populated.
  4. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
  5. : "As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the sunbeams." — Milton


Derived terms


Translations

  • Dutch: bevolkt worden (literally: “become populated”)
  • Finnish:
  • Dutch: bevolken, bewonen
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|enloĝi|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish:

References

Category:100 English basic words Category:Etruscan derivations

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpi.pəl/


Article

  1. an (indefinite article)


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English People \Peo"ple\ (p[=e]"p'l), n. [OE. peple, people, OF. pueple,
F. peuple, fr. L. populus. Cf. Populage, Public,
Pueblo.]
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe,
nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a
whole; a community; a nation.
[1913 Webster]

Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
--Gen. xlix.
10.
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The ants are a people not strong. --Prov. xxx.
25.
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Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues.
--Rev. x. 11.
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Earth's monarchs are her peoples. --Whitter.
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A government of all the people, by all the people,
for all the people. --T. Parker.
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Note: Peopleis a collective noun, generally construed with a
plural verb, and only occasionally used in the plural
form (peoples), in the sense of nations or races.
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2. 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.
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People were tempted to lend by great premiums.
--Swift.
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People have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but
water. --Arbuthnot.
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3. The mass of community as distinguished from a special
class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the
common crowd; as, nobles and people.
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And strive to gain his pardon from the people.
--Addison.
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4. With a possessive pronoun:
(a) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my
people were English.
(b) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions;
followers. "You slew great number of his people."
--Shak.
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Syn: People, Nation.

Usage: When speaking of a state, we use people for the mass
of the community, as distinguished from their rulers,
and nation for the entire political body, including
the rulers. In another sense of the term, nation
describes those who are descended from the same stock;
and in this sense the Germans regard themselves as one
nation, though politically subject to different forms
of government.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English People \Peo"ple\ (p[=e]"p'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peopled
(p[=e]"p'ld) p. pr. & vb. n.; Peopling (p[=e]"p'l[i^]ng).]
[Cf. OF. popler, puepler, F. puepler. Cf. Populate.]
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people;
to populate. "Peopled heaven with angels." --Dryden.
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As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. --Milton.
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WordNet people
n 1: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or
children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at
least 200 people in the audience"
2: the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish
people" [syn: citizenry]
3: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses,
mass, hoi polloi]
4: members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for
generations"; "are your people still alive?"
v 1: fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a
room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote
area of the country" [syn: populate]
2: make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in
Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people
inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The
plains are sparsely populated" [syn: dwell, shack, reside,
live, inhabit, populate, domicile, domiciliate]
Moby Dictionary
Everyman , John Doe , Public , Richard Roe , agnate , ancestors ,
ancestry , anchor , animal kingdom , assembly , billet at , bivouac ,
blood , blood relation , blood relative , bodies , body politic ,
bourgeoisie , breed , brethren , brood , burrow , camp , children ,
churchgoers , citizenry , clan , clansman , class , cognate , collateral ,
collateral relative , colonize , come to anchor , common man ,
common people , commonage , commonality , commonalty , commoners ,
commonwealth , community , community at large , congregation ,
connections , consanguinean , constituency , consumers ,
cultural community , deme , demos , denizen , distaff side ,
distant relation , domesticate , drop anchor , dwellers , empeople ,
enate , ensconce , establish residence , estate , everybody , everyman ,
everyone , everywoman , family , flesh , flesh and blood , flock , fold ,
folk , folks , forebears , general public , gens , gentry , german , get ,
grass roots , habitancy , hearth , hive , hoi polloi , homefolks , house ,
household , inhabit , inhabitants , issue , keep house , kin , kind ,
kindred , kinfolk , kinnery , kinsfolk , kinsman , kinsmen , kinswoman ,
kith and kin , laity , laymen , line , lineage , linguistic community ,
live at , locate , masses , matriclan , men , menage , minyan ,
mobile vulgus , moor , mortals , move , multitude , nation , nationality ,
near relation , nest , next of kin , nonclerics , nonordained persons ,
occupy , offspring , order , parish , parishioners , park , patriclan ,
people at large , people in general , perch , persons , phratry , phyle ,
plant , plant kingdom , plebeians , plebes , polity , populace ,
populate , population , posterity , proletariat , public , race ,
ragtag and bobtail , rank and file , relations , relatives , relocate ,
reside , roost , seculars , sept , set up housekeeping , set up shop ,
settle , settle down , settle in , sheep , sib , sibling ,
silent majority , sit down , society , spear kin , spear side , species ,
speech community , spindle kin , spindle side , squat , stand , state ,
stay at , stem , stirps , stock , strain , strike root , subjects ,
sword side , take residence at , take root , take up residence ,
tenant , the citizenry , the crowd , the general public , the people ,
the populace , the population , the public , third estate , totem ,
tribe , tribesman , uterine kin , whole people , world , you and me


PEOPLE. A state; as, the people of the state of New York; a nation in its collective and political capacity. 4 T. R. 783. See 6 Pet. S. C. Rep. 467. 2. The word people occurs in a policy of insurance. The insurer insures against "detainments of all kings, princes and people." He is not by this understood to insure against any promiscuous or lawless rabble which may be guilty of attacking or detaining a ship. 2 Marsh. Ins. 508. Vide Body politic; Nation.
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