Definition/Meaning of people

• English - Noun: people ( countable and uncountable , plural peoples ) Used as plural of person ; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons . Why do so many people commit suicide? ca . 1607: XXII people was in this parrish drownd . (Plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods) ( plural peoples ) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group , such as a…
• English - Verb: people ( third-person singular simple present peoples , present participle peopling , simple past and past participle peopled ) ( transitive ) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate . 1674 , John Dryden , The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man , Act II , Scene I: He would not be alone , who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels , Earth with Man .…
• English - Etymology: From Middle English peple , peeple , from Anglo-Norman people , from Old French pueple , peuple , pople (modern French peuple ), from Latin populus ( “ people ” ), of unknown origin . Probably of non-Indo-European origin , from Etruscan . Gradually ousted native Middle English lede , leed ( “ people ” ) (from Old English lēode ) - compare modern German Leute ( “ people ” ). Originally a singular…
• English - Pronunciation: ( UK ) IPA (key) : /ˈpiːpəl/ ( US ) IPA (key) : /ˈpipəl/ , /ˈpipl̩/ Rhymes: -iːpəl Hyphenation: peo‧ple Homophone: papal ( some dialects )
• English - References: people in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913