Synonyms: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: people
Definition: members of a family line
Usage: his people have been farmers for generations; are your people still alive?
Similar words: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept
Definition: people descended from a common ancestor
Usage: his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
Definition: the body of citizens of a state or country
Usage: the Spanish people
Synonyms: hoi polloi, the great unwashed, mass, masses, multitude, people
Definition: the common people generally
Usage: separate the warriors from the mass; power to the people
Synonyms: people
Definition: fill with people
Usage: Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes
Similar words: populate
Definition: fill with inhabitants
Usage: populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting
Synonyms: people
Definition: furnish with people
Usage: The plains are sparsely populated
Similar words: dwell, live, inhabit, populate
Definition: inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
Usage: 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; deer are populating the woods