[Sửa]Persons, individuals, men and women, ladies andgentlemen, males and females, living souls; mortals; bodies:How many people can this aeroplane carry?
[Sửa]Relations,relatives, kin, kinsmen, kinsfolk or US and Canadian kinfolk,family, kith and kin; ancestors, forebears: His people leftRussia in 1917.
[Sửa]Masses, (general) public, hoi polloi,consumers, multitude, populace, common people, common man,commoners, subjects, citizenry, plebeians, grass roots,proletariat, rank and file, the crowd, commonalty orcommonality, mobile vulgus, bourgeoisie; man or woman in thestreet, Everyman, Everywoman, Mr or Mrs Average, Brit A. N.Other, Joe Bloggs, man or woman on the Clapham omnibus, US JohnDoe, Mary Doe, Richard Roe, John Q. Public; Colloq and oftenderogatory proles, the rabble, ragtag and bobtail, silentmajority, common herd, Brit plebs, admass: Politicians unableto communicate with the people are seldom elected.
[Sửa]Race, community, clan, tribe, folk, nation,population, society: On the subject of religion, they were apeople divided. The anthropologists were studying the peoplessouth of the Sahara.
[Sửa](usu. as pl.) a persons composing a community,tribe, race, nation, etc. (the English people; a warlikepeople; the peoples of the Commonwealth). b a group of personsof a usu. specified kind (the chosen people; these people here;right-thinking people).
[Sửa](prec. by the; treated as pl.) a themass of people in a country etc. not having special rank orposition. b these considered as an electorate (the people willreject it).
[Sửa]Parents or other relatives (my people areFrench).
[Sửa]A subjects, armed followers, a retinue, etc. b acongregation of a parish priest etc.
[Sửa]Persons in general(people do not like rudeness).
[Sửa]V.tr. (usu. foll. by with) 1fill with people, animals, etc.; populate.
[Sửa](esp. as peopledadj.) inhabit; occupy; fill (thickly peopled).
[Sửa]People'sdemocracy a political system, esp. in E. Europe, with powerregarded as invested in the people. [ME f. AF poeple, people,OF pople, peuple, f. L populus]