people

Etymology
From, , , from , from , , , from , from , from earlier , from even earlier , from of unknown origin. . Gradually ousted native 🇨🇬 and, partially,.

Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29 ), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from 🇨🇬,, a plural since Old English times; see.

Noun

 * : a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
 * 1) * c. 1607, plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods:
 * XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
 * 1)   Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
 * 2)  A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
 * 3) * 1952, , , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1:3:
 * The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
 * 1)  One's colleagues or employees.
 * 2)  A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
 * 3)  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 4)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)   Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
 * 2)  A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
 * 3) * 1952, , , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1:3:
 * The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
 * 1)  One's colleagues or employees.
 * 2)  A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
 * 3)  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 4)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
 * 2) * 1952, , , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1:3:
 * The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
 * 1)  One's colleagues or employees.
 * 2)  A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
 * 3)  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 4)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1) * 1952, , , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1:3:
 * The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
 * 1)  One's colleagues or employees.
 * 2)  A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
 * 3)  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 4)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
 * 2)  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 3)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 2)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
 * 2)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
 * 1)  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.

Usage notes

 * The word people today takes a plural verb in most senses.
 * Nowadays, persons as the plural of person is considered highly formal. Several major style guides recommend people rather than persons. For example, the Associated Press and the New York Times recommend people except in quotations and set phrases. Under the traditional distinction, which says is pedantic, persons describes a finite, known number of individuals, rather than the collective term people. Persons remains in use in technical and legal contexts.

Translations

 * Breton:
 * Interlingua:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Romanian:

Verb

 * 1)  To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
 * 2)  To become populous or populated.
 * 3)  To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
 * , John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
 * / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, /
 * 1)  To interact with people; to socialize.
 * / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, /
 * 1)  To interact with people; to socialize.

Usage notes

 * The informal interaction sense is chiefly used in the negative.

Translations

 * Esperanto: (1),  (2)

Etymology
Since 2000, named after , an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip. .

Noun

 * 1)  a celebrity, celebrities, famous person(s)
 * 2) * 2008, Martine Delvaux, "L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder" ("Frédéric Beigbeder's L’égoïsme romantique "), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, ISBN 978-90-420-2472-4, page 95:
 * "fr"
 * 1) * 2008, Martine Delvaux, "L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder" ("Frédéric Beigbeder's L’égoïsme romantique "), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, ISBN 978-90-420-2472-4, page 95:
 * "fr"

- Oscar Dufresne est un people anti-people, un macho impuissant, un intellectuel qui ne dit rien d’intelligent, un faux sadique et un faux masochiste, un anti-autobiographe.

Usage notes

 * The French noun is frequently italicized as a loanword, as in the quotations above.

Noun

 * 1)  showbusiness, popular media that feature stories on celebrities and famous people (as represented by magazines such as People, (UK) Hello!, (France) Paris Match)