Engelsk navneord: people | |||
1. | people (om gruppe) (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Old people. There were at least 200 people in the audience. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | group, grouping | ||
Mere specifikke termer | age bracket, age group, ancients, baffled, blind, blood, brave, business, business people, businesspeople, cautious, chosen people, class, clientele, coevals, cohort, common people, contemporaries, country, damned, dead, deaf, defeated, developmentally challenged, disabled, discomfited, doomed, enemy, enlightened, episcopacy, episcopate, folk, folks, free, free people, generation, handicapped, homebound, initiate, land, living, lobby, lost, maimed, mentally retarded, migration, nation, nationality, network army, patronage, peanut gallery, peoples, pocket, poor, poor people, populace, population, public, rank and file, retarded, retreated, rich, rich people, sick, smart money, social class, socio-economic class, stratum, timid, tradespeople, unconfessed, unemployed, unemployed people, uninitiate, womankind, world, wounded | ||
Tilhører disse specifikke termer | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
Tilhører disse overordnede termer | human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world | ||
Overordnet anvendelse | plural, plural form | ||
2. | people (om gruppe) the body of citizens of a state or country | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The Spanish people. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | citizenry | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | group, grouping | ||
Mere specifikke termer | Achaean, Aeolian, Arcado-Cyprians, country people, countryfolk, Dorian, electorate, governed, Ionian | ||
Tilhører disse specifikke termer | citizen | ||
3. | people (om gruppe) members of a family line | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His people have been farmers for generations. Are your people still alive?. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept | ||
4. | people (om gruppe) the common people generally | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Separate the warriors from the mass. Power to the people. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | group, grouping | ||
Mere specifikke termer | audience, followers, following, laity, temporalty | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: people | |||
1. | people (om ændring) fill with people | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | populate | ||
2. | people (om tilstand) furnish with people | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The plains are sparsely populated. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s PP | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | dwell, inhabit, live, populate | ||