nation: a nation, community, ethnic group, or nationality a proud people
plural noun
Definition:
1. human beings collectively: human beings considered collectively or in general People tend not to mind if you ask them for help.
2. subordinates: persons who are under the authority or leadership of somebody or something, e.g. employees, subjects, or followers I'll get one of my people to phone them.
3. ordinary men and women: the general population, as distinct from the government or higher social classes the will of the people
4. political unit: a group of persons comprising a political unit, electorate, or group
5. family members: the members of somebody's family, especially somebody's close family
(
informal
)
My people were farmers.
transitive verb (past and past participlepeo·pled, present participlepeo·pling, 3rd person present singularpeo·ples)
Definition:
populate area: to populate an area
(
usually passive
)
mountain regions that are sparsely peopled
[13th century. Via Anglo-Norman and Old French< Latin populus< Etruscan]
Word Usage
people as singular or plural?
In most cases people behaves as a plural, as in People are funny; you never know what they will do. When people means "a group of human beings sharing one specific nationality, culture, or language," however, it is regarded as a singular and when used in the plural, takes an s plural ending: a Native American people of the Southwest, one of several such peoples noted for their peaceableness. The possessive of people is formed by adding an apostrophe + s if one people is stipulated: the people's choice of a new president. If many peoples are stipulated, the possessive is formed by adding an apostrophe after the s: various Caribbean peoples' representatives at the conference. People is the preferred form in designating human beings in the plural generally: Thousands of people [not persons] jammed the stadium.What on earth will people [not persons] think if you do that? Use persons only in certain narrow, typically legalistic or otherwise official, contexts: the Bureau of Missing Persons;the arrest of three suspicious persons loitering outside the White House gates.
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