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.