| people | |
| 1. n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. | |
| Why do so many people commit suicide? | |
| 2. n. Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community. | |
| 3. n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. | |
| 4. n. One's colleagues or employees. | |
| 5. n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family. | |
| My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War. | |
| 6. n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens. | |
| 7. n. plural of person. | |
| 8. v. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated. | |
| 10. v. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate. | |
