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People

noun

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively. "There were at least 200 people in the audience"

The body of citizens of a state or country. Synonym: citizenry.

Members of a family line. "Are your people still alive?"

The common people generally. Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed. "Power to the people"

verb

(past & past part. peopled; pres. part. peopling)

Fill with people.

Furnish with people.

Person

noun

(pl. people, persons)

A human being. Synonyms: individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

A human body (usually including the clothing).

A grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party.

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"People" Quotes from Famous Books

... a very simple rule That every one should know; You may not hear of it in school, But everywhere you go, In every land where people dwell, And men are good and true, You'll find they understand it well, And so ...

— More Goops and How Not to Be Them • Gelett Burgess

... was to turn back, to quit. That is always my first impulse. The instincts of my bourgeois ancestry against the unusual, the impractical,—the safe-and-sane conservatism of the farmers and clerks and small business men bred in my people ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... of Salem in 1796. Hawthorne's father, a ship captain, died in a foreign land when his son was only four years old; his mother lived for forty years after the death of her husband the life of a recluse in her own house. The family's star was in the decline and the people of Salem looked on Nathaniel as a lazy and very queer boy. He grew up in a unique solitude. During these years of seclusion Hawthorne acquired the habit of keeping silent on all occasions, and reading a few books ...

— Short-Stories • Various

... under his breath, "is the most heavenly—the most wonderful thing that ever came into my life! I'm not worthy of it. But God knows that I will take care of you, Sue, and, long before I take you to New York, to my own people, these days will be only a troubled dream. You will ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... been haunted with an ever-recurring temptation, which, instead of dismissing it, she kept like a dog in a string. Different kinds of evil affect people differently. Ten thousand will do a dishonest thing, who would indignantly reject the dishonest thing favored by another ten thousand. They are not sufficiently used to its ugly face not to dislike ...

— Mary Marston • George MacDonald

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