people

Noun
  1. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively (synset 107958392)
    "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
    domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
    is a type of: group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
    subtypes:
    • peoples - the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group
    • age bracket, age group, cohort - a group of people having approximately the same age
    • ancients - people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
    • baffled - people who are frustrated and perplexed
    • blind - people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
    • blood - people viewed as members of a group
    • brave - people who are brave
    • cautious, timid - people who are fearful and cautious
    • business people, businesspeople - people who transact business (especially business executives)
    • community - a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common
    • damned - people who are condemned to eternal punishment
    • dead - people who are no longer living
    • living - people who are still living
    • deaf - people who have severe hearing impairments
    • defeated, discomfited - people who are defeated
    • disabled, handicapped - people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped
    • doomed, lost - people who are destined to die soon
    • enemy - any hostile group of people
    • episcopacy, episcopate - the collective body of bishops
    • common people, folk, folks - people in general (often used in the plural)
    • free, free people - people who are free
    • homebound - people who are confined to their homes
    • enlightened, initiate - people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
    • uninitiate - people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
    • developmentally challenged, mentally retarded, retarded - people collectively who are mentally retarded
    • network army - a group of like-minded people united by the internet; a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern
    • nationality - people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation
    • peanut gallery - (figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)
    • pocket - a small isolated group of people
    • retreated - people who have retreated
    • sick - people who are sick
    • tradespeople - people engaged in trade
    • maimed, wounded - people who are wounded
    • migration - a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
    • class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum - people having the same social, economic, or educational status
    • country, land, nation - the people who live in a nation or country
    • poor, poor people - people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
    • rich, rich people - people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)
    • populace, public, world - people in general considered as a whole
    • population - the people who inhabit a territory or state
    • coevals, contemporaries, generation - all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
    • lobby - the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
    • business, clientele, patronage - customers collectively
    • rank and file - people who constitute the main body of any group
    • smart money - people who are highly experienced or who have inside information
    • unconfessed - people who have not confessed
    • unemployed, unemployed people - people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
    • womankind - women as distinguished from men
    • chosen people - any people believing themselves to be chosen by God
    • slavic people - group of people speaking a Slavonic language
    member holonym: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
    belongs to: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world - all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
  2. The body of citizens of a state or country (synset 108177175)
    "the Spanish people"
    is a type of: group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
    subtypes:
    • country people, countryfolk - people living in the same country; compatriots
    • achaean, arcado-cyprians - the ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea
    • aeolian - the ancient Greek inhabitants of Aeolia
    • dorian - the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece from the north about 1100 BC
    • ionian - the ancient Greek inhabitants of Attica and related regions in Ionia
    • electorate - the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote
    • governed - the body of people who are citizens of a particular government
    member holonym: citizen - a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
    same as: citizenry
  3. Members of a family line (synset 107987588)
    "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
    is a type of: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept - people descended from a common ancestor
  4. The common people generally (synset 108197108)
    "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
    is a type of: group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
    subtypes:
    • laity, temporalty - in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy
    • audience - the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment
    • followers, following - a group of followers or enthusiasts
    same as: hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed
Verb
  1. Fill with people (synset 200452416)
    "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"
    is a type of: populate - fill with inhabitants
  2. Furnish with people (synset 202656935)
    "The plains are sparsely populated"
    is a type of: dwell, inhabit, live, populate - be an inhabitant of or reside in

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