Definition of people
- n. - The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation,
or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a
nation.
- n. - Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women;
folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; --
sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and
man in German; as, people in adversity.
- n. - The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class;
the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles
and people.
- n. - One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my
people were English.
- n. - One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
- v. t. - To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with
people; to populate.