n. | 1. | The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. |
2. | Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; | |
3. | The mass of community as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; | |
4. | One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; | |
v. t. | 1. | To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. |
Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | people - the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people" Synonyms: citizenry | |
3. | people - the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" | |
4. | people - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" | |
Verb | 1. | people - fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country" Synonyms: populate |
2. | people - 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" |
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.