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People

noun

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively. "There were at least 200 people in the audience"

The body of citizens of a state or country. Synonym: citizenry.

Members of a family line. "Are your people still alive?"

The common people generally. Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed. "Power to the people"

verb

(past & past part. peopled; pres. part. peopling)

Fill with people.

Furnish with people.

Person

noun

(pl. people, persons)

A human being. Synonyms: individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

A human body (usually including the clothing).

A grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party.

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"People" Quotes from Famous Books

... or late at night. Thus passed away two months, during which I occasionally saw the Dominie, the Stapletons, and old Tom Beazeley. I had exerted myself to procure Tom's discharge, and at last had the pleasure of telling the old people that it was to go out by the next packet. By the Drummonds I was received as a member of the family—there was no hindrance to my being alone with Sarah for hours; and although I had not ventured to declare my sentiments, they appeared ...

— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Legislative branch: unicameral People's National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale Populaire (114 seats; members are elected by direct, popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 11 June 1995 (next election postponed indefinitely) election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - PUP 71, RPG ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... kingdom which still mocked Joseph with the shadow of a crown. In the open field, indeed, the French appeared everywhere triumphant, except only where the British force from Portugal interfered, and in almost every district of Spain the fortresses were in their hands; yet the spirit of the people remained wholly unsubdued. The invaders could not count an inch of soil their own beyond their outposts. Their troops continued to be harassed and thinned by the indomitable guerillas or partisan ...

— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart

... the third day came the risen Saviour; but the people, thinking that Joseph had stolen away the body, seized and imprisoned him in a chamber where there was no window. They fastened the door and put a seal upon the lock and placed men before the door to guard it. Then the ...

— Christmas in Legend and Story - A Book for Boys and Girls • Elva S. Smith

... good thoroughfare, which led (as well as I could judge) in my direction. It brought me almost immediately through a piece of street, whence I could hear close by the springing of a watchman's rattle, and where I suppose a sixth part of the windows would be open, and the people, in all sorts of night gear, talking with a kind of tragic gusto from one to another. Here, again, I must run the gauntlet of a half-dozen questions, the rattle all the while sounding nearer; but ...

— St Ives • Robert Louis Stevenson

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