people (noun)
1: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or
children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at
least 200 people in the audience"
2: the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish
people" [syn: citizenry]
3: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses,
mass, hoi polloi]
4: members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for
generations"; "are your people still alive?"
people
(verb)
1: fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a
room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote
area of the country" [syn: populate]
2: make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in
Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people
inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The
plains are sparsely populated" [syn: dwell, shack, reside,
live, inhabit, populate, domicile, domiciliate]