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people

('p/i/p/@/l )

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively(noun.group)

Example:
Old people.
There were at least 200 people in the audience.

source: wordnet30
the body of citizens of a state or country(noun.group)

Example:
The Spanish people.

Synonym:
citizenry

source: wordnet30
members of a family line(noun.group)

Example:
His people have been farmers for generations.
Are your people still alive?.

source: wordnet30
the common people generally(noun.group)

Example:
Power to the people.

Synonym:
hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed

source: wordnet30
The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.(noun)

source: webster1913

fill with people(verb.change)

Example:
Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes.

source: wordnet30
furnish with people(verb.stative)

source: wordnet30
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.(verb)

source: webster1913

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