People

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.

II. People ·noun One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.

III. People ·vt To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to Populate.

IV. People ·noun The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

V. People ·noun The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.

VI. People ·noun 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.