Engelsk substantiv: 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 spesifikke uttrykk | group, grouping | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 spesifikke uttrykkene | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
Tilhører disse overordnede uttrykkene | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | citizenry | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | group, grouping | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | Achaean, Aeolian, Arcado-Cyprians, country people, countryfolk, Dorian, electorate, governed, Ionian | ||
Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | 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 spesifikke uttrykk | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | group, grouping | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | audience, followers, following, laity, temporalty | ||
Engelsk verb: people | |||
1. | people (om endring) fill with people | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | populate | ||
2. | people (om tilstand) furnish with people | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The plains are sparsely populated. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s PP | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | dwell, inhabit, live, populate | ||