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people
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[ noun ] (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Examples "old people" "there were at least 200 people in the audience" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` But I believe if people were better informed on this question , most_of them would oppose it also . Rep._James_Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water_development bill passed by the Texas House_of_Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort_Worth to cover_up places like Paradise , a Wise_County hamlet of 250 people . `` We must solve the problems which have forced these people to depend_upon ADC for subsistence '' , Martin said . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)`` You often hear people talk_about team_spirit and that sort of thing '' , Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies , `` but what this team had was a_little different . (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)People who take us for suckers are like the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form of a number of bull's-eye achievements . Related terms group nation populace population folk dead coevals community class enemy blind blood_group disabled living damned deaf doomed unconfessed clientele age_group homebound timid mentally_retarded uninitiate sick retreated baffled wounded defeated rank_and_file smart_money brave blood chosen_people business_people womankind network_army initiate homeless free pocket ancients migration peanut_gallery world person plural |
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[ noun ] the body of citizens of a state or country
Synonyms Examples "the Spanish people" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)A heterogeneous people have needed it to attain an element of cultural and political cohesion in a new and ever_changing land . That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the common people generally
Synonyms Examples "separate the warriors from the mass" "power to the people" Used in print (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)Linguists have not always been more enlightened than `` practical people '' and sometimes have insisted on incredibly trivial points while neglecting things of much greater significance . |
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[ noun ] members of a family line
Examples "his people have been farmers for generations" "are your people still alive?" Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)The Skopas people seemed to him of that breed of human_beings whose insularity frees them from tragedy . Related terms |
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[ verb ] fill with people or supply with inhabitants
Synonyms Examples "people a room" "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)When , therefore , it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit , these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 13191
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[ verb ] (housing) make one's home or live in
Examples "There are only 250,000 people 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" |
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