people :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (8)

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

citizenry

n. the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people"

family, relatives

n. members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"

mass, multitude, masses, hoi polloi

n. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

Verbs (8)

fill with people

v. fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"

shack, live, dwell, reside, inhabit, populate, make one's home

v. inhabit or live in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"

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Fuzzynyms (131)

tribe, federation of tribes

n. a federation (as of American Indians)

labor, labour, proletariat, working class

n. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

womanhood, woman

n. women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda"

kin, kindred, clan, tribe, kin group, kinship group

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

folk, tribe

n. a social division of (usually preliterate) people

house, family, household, menage, ménage

n. a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

community

n. a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

society

n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

order, club, lodge, society, community, fellowship, guild, gild

n. a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

public

n. a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading public"

man

n. the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"

mate, consort, partner, spouse, married person

n. a person's partner in marriage

employee

n. a worker who is hired to perform a job

mate

n. informal term for a friend of the same sex

community

n. a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

society

n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

kin, kindred, clan, tribe, kin group, kinship group

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

kin, family, kinsperson

n. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

rout, mob, rabble

n. a disorderly crowd of people

church, clergy

n. in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)

world, public, populace

n. people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

crowd

n. a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

concourse, multitude, throng

n. a large gathering of people

gang, ring, pack, mob

n. an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

camp, pack, clique, coterie, in-group, ingroup, inner circle

n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

labor, labour, proletariat, working class

n. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

kin, kindred, clan, tribe, kin group, kinship group

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

folk, tribe

n. a social division of (usually preliterate) people

house, family, household, menage, ménage

folk, common people

n. people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail

n. disparaging terms for the common people

commonality, commonalty, commons

n. class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank

rank and file

n. people who constitute the main body of any group

community

n. a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

profession, community

n. the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"

society

n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

peasantry

n. the class of peasants

order, club, lodge, society, community, fellowship, guild, gild

n. a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

public

n. a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading public"

man, provide with men

v. provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks"

garrison

v. station (troops) in a fort or garrison

post, place, base, station, send

v. assign to a station

occupy, inhabit

v. be present in; be inside of

tenant

v. occupy as a tenant