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People

People (people)
n.(?)
Peo"ple
[OE. peple, people, OF. pueple, F. peuple, fr. L. populus. Cf. 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. Gen. xlix. 10.

    The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. 25.

    Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues. Rev. x. 11.

    Earth's monarchs are her peoples. Whitter.

    A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. T. Parker.

    * 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. Swift.

    People have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water. Arbuthnot.

  3. The mass of comunity 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. Addison.

  4. One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
    (b)

People

People (people)
v. t.(?)
Peo"ple
[imp. *** p. p. Peopled p. pr. & vb. n. Peopling (&?]).] [Cf. OF. popler, puepler, F. puepler. Cf. Populate.]
  1. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
    "Peopled heaven with angels." Dryden.

    As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton.














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