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NOUN | 1 | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
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2 | people, citizenry | The body of citizens of a state or country | |
3 | people, multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi | The common people generally | |
4 | people | Members of a family line | |
VERB | 1 | people, populate | Fill with people or supply with inhabitants |
2 | people, dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, populate, domicile, domiciliate | Make one's home or live in |
Sounds | piy'pahl |
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Rhymes | abdominal, Abel, able, and 2059 more rhymes in ahl at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively. |
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Examples | "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
Member of | world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man |
Members | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
Narrower | age group, age bracket, cohort; ancients; baffled; blind; blood; brave; timid, cautious; business people, businesspeople; damned; dead; living; deaf; defeated, discomfited; disabled; doomed, lost; enemy; folk, common people; free, free people; homebound; homeless; initiate, enlightened; uninitiate; mentally retarded; network army; peanut gallery; pocket; retreated; sick; wounded, maimed; migration; class, social class, socio-economic class; blood group, blood type; nation, land, country, a people; populace, public, world; population; community; coevals, contemporaries, generation; clientele, patronage, business; rank and file; smart money; unconfessed; womankind; chosen people |
Broader | group, grouping |
Usage | plural, plural form |
Verbs | people; people |
Meaning | The body of citizens of a state or country. |
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Examples | "the Spanish people" |
Synonyms | citizenry |
Members | citizen |
Narrower | electorate; governed |
Broader | group, grouping |
Verbs | people; people |
Meaning | The common people generally. |
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Examples | "power to the people" |
Synonyms | multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi |
Narrower | laity, temporalty; audience; following, followers |
Broader | group, grouping |
Verbs | people; people |
Meaning | Members of a family line. |
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Examples | "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" |
Broader | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry |
Meaning | Fill with people or supply with inhabitants. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "people a room" |
Synonyms | populate |
Broader | fill, fill up, make full |
Nouns | people; people; people |
Meaning | Make one's home or live in. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted" |
Synonyms | dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, populate, domicile, domiciliate |
Narrower | neighbor, neighbour; rusticate; occupy, reside, lodge in; overpopulate; cohabit, shack up; lodge; camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent; board, room |
Broader | be |
Nouns | people; people; people |