English noun: people |
| 1. | people (group) (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
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| Samples | Old people.
There were at least 200 people in the audience.
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| Broader (hypernym) | group, grouping |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | 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 |
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| Member holonym | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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| Member meronym | human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world |
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| Domain usage | plural, plural form |
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| 2. | people (group) the body of citizens of a state or country |
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| Samples | The Spanish people.
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| Synonyms | citizenry |
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| Broader (hypernym) | group, grouping |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Achaean, Aeolian, Arcado-Cyprians, country people, countryfolk, Dorian, electorate, governed, Ionian |
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| Member holonym | citizen |
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| 3. | people (group) members of a family line |
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| Samples | His people have been farmers for generations.
Are your people still alive?.
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| Broader (hypernym) | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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| 4. | people (group) the common people generally |
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| Samples | Separate the warriors from the mass.
Power to the people.
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| Synonyms | hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed |
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| Broader (hypernym) | group, grouping |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | audience, followers, following, laity, temporalty |
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