People

people

noun

peo·​ple | \ ˈpē-pəl
\
plural people

Definition of people

 (Entry 1 of 2)

1 plural : human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest
2 plural : human beings, persons often used in compounds instead of personssalespeople often used attributivelypeople skills
3 plural : the members of a family or kinship
4 plural : the mass of a community as distinguished from a special class disputes between the people and the nobles often used by Communists to distinguish Communists from other people
5 plural peoples : a body of persons that are united by a common culture, tradition, or sense of kinship, that typically have common language, institutions, and beliefs, and that often constitute a politically organized group
6  lower animals usually of a specified kind or situation
7  the body of enfranchised citizens of a state

people

people

verb

peopled; peopling\ ˈpē-​p(ə-​)liŋ
\

Definition of people (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

1 To supply or fill with people
2 To dwell in : inhabit
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