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people
noun
1 people
plural Any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.
Roget 997:
laity,
flock,
fold,
congregation,
assembly,
brethren,
people;
society [U.S.].
temporality,
secularization.
layman,
civilian;
parishioner,
catechumen;
secularist.
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Roget 372:
man,
mankind;
human race,
human species,
human kind,
human nature;
humanity,
mortality,
flesh,
generation.
[Science of man]
anthropology,
anthropogeny†,
anthropography†,
anthroposophy†;
ethnology,
ethnography;
humanitarian.
human being;
person,
personage;
individual,
creature,
fellow creature,
mortal,
body,
somebody;
one;
such a one,
some one;
soul,
living soul;
earthling;
party,
head,
hand;
dramatis personae [Lat.];
quidam [Lat.].
people,
persons,
folk,
public,
society,
world;
community,
community at large;
general public;
nation,
nationality;
state,
realm;
commonweal,
commonwealth;
republic,
body politic;
million
etc.
(commonalty)
876;
population
etc.
(inhabitant)
188.
tribe,
clan
(paternity)
166;
family
(consanguinity)
11.
cosmopolite;
lords of the creation;
ourselves.
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Roget 188:
inhabitant;
resident,
residentiary†;
dweller,
indweller†;
addressee;
occupier,
occupant;
householder,
lodger,
inmate,
tenant,
incumbent,
sojourner,
locum tenens,
commorant†;
settler,
squatter,
backwoodsman,
colonist;
islander;
denizen,
citizen;
burgher,
oppidan†,
cockney,
cit,
townsman,
burgess;
villager;
cottager,
cottier†,
cotter;
compatriot;
backsettler†,
boarder;
hotel keeper,
innkeeper;
habitant;
paying guest;
planter.
native,
indigene,
aborigines,
autochthones†;
Englishman,
John Bull;
newcomer
etc.
(stranger)
57.
aboriginal,
American†,
Caledonian,
Cambrian,
Canadian,
Canuck [Slang],
downeaster [U.S.],
Scot,
Scotchman,
Hibernian,
Irishman,
Welshman,
Uncle Sam,
Yankee,
Brother Jonathan.
garrison,
crew;
population;
people
etc.
(mankind)
372;
colony,
settlement;
household;
mir†.
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Dutch: lui, ik begrijp het niet, personen, volk, mensen
Polish: ludziska
2 people
The body of citizens of a state or country:
— The Spanish people.
synonym: citizenry.
Dutch: bevolking, burgerij, natie, volk
3 people
Members of a family line.
4 people
verb
1 people
Fill with people.
Roget 102:
be numerous
etc.
adj.;
swarm with,
teem with,
creep with;
crowd,
swarm,
come thick upon;
outnumber,
multiply;
people;
swarm like locusts,
swarm like bees.
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Roget 186:
exist in space,
be present
etc.
adj.;
assister†;
make one of,
make one at;
look on,
attend,
remain;
find oneself,
present oneself;
show one's face;
fall in the way of,
occur in a place;
lie,
stand;
occupy;
be there.
people;
inhabit,
dwell,
reside,
stay,
sojourn,
live,
abide,
lodge,
nestle,
roost,
perch;
take up one's abode
etc.
(be located)
184;
tenant.
resort to,
frequent,
haunt;
revisit.
fill,
pervade,
permeate;
be diffused,
be disseminated,
be through;
over spread,
overrun;
run through;
meet one at every turn.
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2 people
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