People Definition–noun | 1. | persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think? |
| 2. | persons, whether men, women, or children, considered as numerable individuals forming a group: Twenty people volunteered to help. |
| 3. | human beings, as distinguished from animals or other beings. |
| 4. | the entire body of persons who constitute a community, tribe, nation, or other group by virtue of a common culture, history, religion, or the like: the people of Australia; the Jewish people. |
| 5. | the persons of any particular group, company, or number (sometimes used in combination): the people of a parish; educated people; salespeople. |
| 6. | the ordinary persons, as distinguished from those who have wealth, rank, influence, etc.: a man of the people. |
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the subjects, followers, or subordinates of a ruler, leader, employer, etc.: the king and his people. |
| 8. | the body of enfranchised citizens of a state: representatives chosen by the people. |
| 9. | a person's family or relatives: My grandmother's people came from Iowa. |
| 10. | (used in the possessive in Communist or left-wing countries to indicate that an institution operates under the control of or for the benefit of the people, esp. under Communist leadership): people's republic; people's army. |
| 11. | animals of a specified kind: the monkey people of the forest. |
–verb (used with object) | 12. | to furnish with people; populate. |
| 13. | to supply or stock as if with people: a meadow peopled with flowers. |
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