People

Noun

 * 1) ; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
 * 2) (plural peoples) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a 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, Old Testament, King James Version, 2 Samuel 8:15,
 * And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
 * 1) * 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Isaiah 1:3,
 * The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
 * 1) One's colleagues or employees.
 * 2) * 2001, Vince Flynn, Transfer of Power, p. 250:
 * Kennedy looked down at Flood's desk and thought about the possibilities. "Can you locate him?" "I already have my people checking on all [it]."
 * 1) * 2008, Fern Michaels, Hokus Pokus‎, p. 184:
 * Can I have one of my people get back to your people, Mr. President?" She tried to slam the phone back into the base and failed.
 * 1) A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
 * My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
 * 1) The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 1) The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

Synonyms

 * lede (leod)
 * collective, community, congregation, folk, nation, clan, tribe, race, class, caste, club
 * fans, groupies, supporters
 * kin, kith, folks
 * populace, commoners, citizenry

Derived terms

 * peeps
 * people's army
 * people's democracy
 * people's republic
 * people's war
 * peoplehood
 * peopleless

Verb

 * 1)  To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
 * 2) * 1674, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, Act II, Scene I:
 * He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man.
 * 1)  To become populous or populated.
 * 2)  To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
 * 3) * John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
 * / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, /

Derived terms

 * peopler

Adjectives for People
aboriginal; abused; accursed; adventurous; affectionate; agile; alert; amiable; amused; aristocratic; aspiring; astounding; austere; aware; barbaric; benevolent; benighted; bent; border; brave; brusque; bustling; celebrated; charitable; chivalrous; civilized; cold; common; commonplace; communicative; congenial; congregated; conquering; constructive; contemplative; conventional; credulous; cruel; cultivated; debonair; decadent; decent;  defenseless;   degraded; deluded; democratic; desperate; devoted; diminutive; discontented; distinguished; discriminating; dissipated; distinct; doglike; distressed; egotistical; elbowing; eminent; energetic; enervated; enslaved; enfranchised; engrossing; enlightened; enterprising; erect; estimable; excited; everlasting; expatriated; extravagant; factious; fanciful; fashionable; fertile; fastidious; fickle; filthy; frenzied; fun-loving; friendless; friendly ; frivolous; gaily-dressed; gay; generous; gloomy; grateful; great; growing; high-minded; homogeneous; humble; humdrum; hurrying; idolatrous; illiterate; impoverished; impulsive; inarticulate; indestructible; indignant; industrious; infatuated; inflamed; infuriated; insane; intense; kind-heart¬ed; interesting; jealous; law-loving; kindly-* faced; laboring; learned; liberty-loving; light; lighter; litigious; lively; malicious; martial; materialistic; mediocre; merry; milling; miserable; modest; missionary-minded; money-making; nice; much-pray¬ing; mysterious; neighboring; niggardly; noble; nomadic; notable; noteworthy; obscure; oppressed; outrageous; overfed; pack¬ed; panic-stricken; peace-loving; panting; paradoxical; pastoral; peculiar; pediatric; perfect; persistent; persuadable; pessimistic; picturesque; pious; polished; polite; poor; poorly-dressed; practical; precise; prehistoric; preposterous; primitive; progressive; prominent; proud; provoking; quarrelsome; refined; reflective; restless; rich; rigid; rude; rugged; rushing; sagacious; sanguine; seafaring; selfish; sensible; self-seeking; semi-literate; sensitive; sentimental; servile; shabby; shade-loving; sightless; sleek; snobbish; smart; sober; social-minded; solitary; sore; sovereign; special; started; startled; stiff; strange; strong; stupid; sturdy; stylish; supine; substantial; suffering; sufficient; superior; superstitious; swollen; terror-stricken; thoughtful; tempted; thinking; tiresome; thoughtless; timid; tranquil; turbulent; ulcerous; unambitious; unclassical; uncouth; uncultivated; uncultured; unfortunate; unnatural; unobtrusive; unpoetic; unpolished; unreasonable; unreasoning; verbose; vigilant; vigorous; virile; virtuous; visiting; volatile; weak; well-dressed; well-informed; wholesale; wise; wonderful; wondering; worthless; young.

Verbs for People
chide—; color—; conciliate—; corral—; de¬nounce to—; depict—; fraternize with—; in¬stigate—; jolt—; liberate—; outsmart (col-loq.)—; portray—; regiment—; tyrannize over—; —arise; —flock to; —gather round; —rally to; —revolt; —sanction.

Thesaurus
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

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 lede, leed "people" (from  lēode).

Originally a singular noun (eg. The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness --2 Samuel 17:29, King James Version), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from lede, leed, a plural since  times (compare  lēode "people, men, persons", plural of  lēod "man, person").

Noun

 * Afrikaans: mense
 * Arabic: ناس
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: людзі
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: tud
 * Bulgarian: хора, люде
 * Catalan: gent
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee: ᏴᏫ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 人們, 人们
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: inimesed
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Middle French:
 * German:, Menschen
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: אנשים
 * Hindi: लोग
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: personas, gente
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 人々, 人達
 * Korean: 사람들
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خه‌ڵک
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: cilvēki, ļaudis
 * Lithuanian:


 * Lojban:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Manx: pobble
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:, ,
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਲੋਕ (lōk)
 * Romanian:, lume
 * Russian: люди, люд
 * Scots: fowk
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: људи
 * Roman: ljudi
 * Slovak: ľudia, ľud
 * Slovene: ljudje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: t’óyna
 * Telugu: ప్రజలు (prajalu), జనం (janam)
 * Tetum: ema
 * Thai: คน, ผู้, บุคคล
 * Turkish:
 * Uab Meto:
 * Ukrainian: люди
 * Urdu: لوگ
 * Vietnamese: (人民),
 * Volapük: mens
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:, lju
 * Zulu: abantu


 * Afrikaans: volk
 * Arabic: ناس
 * Armenian: ժողովուրդ
 * Belarusian: народ, нацыя
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: народ, нация
 * Catalan: poble
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 人民, 民族
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, , národ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Volk (plural Völker)
 * Greek:, ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: עם
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 国民, 民族, 人民
 * Korean: 국민 (國民), 민족 (民族)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: گه‌ل, مله‌ت


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tauta, ļaudis
 * Lithuanian: tauta, liaudis
 * Macedonian:
 * Maori:
 * Mazanderani:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:, ,
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: fowk
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: народ
 * Roman: narod
 * Slovak: národ
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: folk, folkslag
 * Ukrainian: народ, нація
 * Vietnamese: (人民)
 * Yiddish: פֿאָלק


 * Afrikaans: mense
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: peuple
 * German:
 * French: peuple
 * German:


 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 사람들 (saramdeul), 신하 (sinha), 백성 (baekseong)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: familie
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Familie, Verwandten , Angehörigen
 * Greek: σόι (sói), δικοί του (dikoí tou)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 家族 (kazoku), 両親 (ryōshin), 親類 (shinrui), 先祖 (senzo)
 * Korean: 가족 (gajok), 양친 (yangchin), 근친자 (geunchinja), 선조 (seonjo)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: باو باپیران


 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: родня (rodnjá, colloq.)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Taos: t’óyna
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans: volk
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: poble
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: μάζες (mázes), (laós)
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 平民 (heimin), 庶民 (しょみん, shomin)


 * Korean: 평민 (pyeongmin), 서민 (seomin)
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: liaudis
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: folk (most commonly in definite form folket)
 * Taos: t’óyna


 * : pobl -où
 * : 人们 (rénmen); 人民 (rénmín); 人 (yun, Cantonese version)
 * : populo


 * : liaudis
 * : popor

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: popolare con
 * Macedonian: населува
 * Norwegian: befolke


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: населять (naselját’)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: poblar con
 * Swedish: befolka


 * Dutch: bevolkt worden (literally: “become populated”)
 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian: befolkes


 * Portuguese: povoar-se
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: befolkas


 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:


 * German: bewohnen, besiedeln, bevölkern
 * Norwegian: befolke
 * Swedish: befolka


 * : popoli (1), popoliĝi (2)

Noun

 * 1)  A celebrity, a famous person.
 * 2) * 2004, Emmanuel Davidenkoff and Didier Hassoux, Luc Ferry: une comédie du pouvoir, 2002–2004 (Luc Ferry: A Comedy of Power, 2002–2004), Hachette, ISBN 9782012357785,
 * Le novice en politique contre le mammouth « Éducation nationale ». Ça mérite la sympathie. Et puis c’est un people. Les gens aiment et détestent à la fois. Ils sont fascinés. Le bonheur sur papier glacé. Les vacances entre Saint-Trop’, la Martinique et Deauville.
 * The political novice against the mammoth "National Education". That merited sympathy. Then, too, he was a celebrity. People loved and hated at the same time. They were fascinated. Happiness on ice paper. Vacations between Saint-Tropez, Martinique, and Deauville.
 * 1) * 2008, Martine Delvaux, "L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder" ("Frédéric Beigbeder's L’égoïsme romantique (Romantic Egotism)"), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, ISBN 978-90-420-2472-4, page 95:
 * Oscar Dufresne est un people anti-people, un macho impuissant, un intellectuel qui ne dit rien d’intelligent, un faux sadique et un faux masochiste, un anti-autobiographe.
 * Oscar Dufresne is a celebrity who is anti-celebrity, a powerless macho man, an intellectual who says nothing intelligent, a fake sadist and a fake masochist, an anti-autobiographer.

Alternative forms

 * pipole

Etymology
From people:.

Synonyms

 * célébrité, personne connue, personnalité, personnage public

Derived terms

 * pipolisation