people - English dictionary definition

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1. People  The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
2. People  Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
3. People  The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
4. People  One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
5. People  One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
6. People  To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
7. people  plural any group of human beings men or women or children collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
8. People against Gangsterism and Drugs  a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords; evolved into a vigilante group with anti Western views closely allied with Qibla; is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East; is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism
9. people of color  a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race especially Blacks
10. people of colour  a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race especially Blacks