people
/ˈpi.pəl/noun, verb2 syllables
People means: the common people generally.
Synonyms for people6
What does people mean?6
noun
1
the common people generally“separate the warriors from the mass”
2
the body of citizens of a state or country“the Spanish people”
3
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively“old people”
4
members of a family line“his people have been farmers for generations”
verb
1
fill with people“Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes”
2
furnish with people“The plains are sparsely populated”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
People in a sentence
- If people who smoke are deprived of their cigarettes, they get nervous and irritable.CK
- It was a pleasant day, but there were few people in the park.CK
- Some people kept interrupting the speakers, and finally broke up the meeting.Swift
- Outside the school, she saw people with no homes living in cardboard boxes.CK
- Few people, if any, could survive a nuclear war.CK
- In general, people were against the consumption tax.slyfin
- In a past-oriented society, people dwell on the past and on tradition.auxitt
- Some people like summer, and others like winter.CK
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of people
as a noun
- plural
- peoples
as a verb
- past tense
- peopled
- present participle
- peopling
- third-person singular
- peoples
- past participle
- peopled