People

/ˈpi.pəl/ · noun

Meaning

plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons..

Definitions by Sense

1. plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
2. (countable, collective) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
3. A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
4. One's colleagues or employees.
5. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
6. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
7. People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
8. (rare, informal, chiefly in the negative) To interact with people; to socialize.

Example Sentences

There were so many people at the restaurant last night.

These six people are waiting for the bus.

Under dictatorship, people suffered and died.

XXII people was in this parrish drownd.

"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]”

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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Word Forms

• peoples
• peeps
• peops
• peple
• pipple
• ppl
• ppl.
• peopling
• peopled

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