People
People (pē"p'l) , noun
[Old English peple, people, Old French pueple, French peuple, from Latin populus. Compare Populage, Public, Pueblo.]
1.
The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
The ants are a people not strong.
Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues.
Earth's monarchs are her peoples.
A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.
Peopleis a collective noun, generally construed with a plural verb, and only occasionally used in the plural form (peoples), in the sense of nations or races.
2.
Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
People were tempted to lend by great premiums.
People have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water.
3.
The mass of community as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
And strive to gain his pardon from the people.
4.
(a) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
(b)
One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
You slew great number of his people.
People (pē"p'l) , transitive verb
[Compare Old French popler, puepler, French puepler. Compare Populate.]
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
Peopled heaven with angels.
As the gay motes that people the sunbeams.