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(n)
(collective) The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.)
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The group of all citizens; citizens taken collectively.
(generically) People, especially a large number of people; the general population.
(v)
(transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
(transitive) To live or reside in.
(physical) Matter, material.
The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
A surname.
(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
(engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
The inhabitants of a country or one of its administrative divisions (such as a state, province, or county).
One who belongs to a group.
(countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
A central business district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
(adj)
Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc.; of the grass roots.
A subject of a nation.
A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
A person who is popular, especially at a school.
(chiefly in the plural) A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.
An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.
A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
In a job; working.
(collective plural) People, persons.
Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
Any person.
(colloquial) Used to address a group of people regardless of gender.
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
An animal or plant native to a region.
Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals
A marked natural ability or skill.
(adv)
In an internal manner; within or inside of external limits; in an inner part or situation.
(operations, philosophy) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
(psychology) The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
(US) People in general; everybody or anybody.
Quantity.
(collective, dated, fantasy) (The) people, humanity, man(kind).
The human race in its entirety.
(uncountable) Humankind; human beings as a group.
(with a superlative adjective) Beyond all others.
Ellipsis of National Party.
A female ombudsman.
The Quakers; the Society of Friends.
(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
Other people.
The other one; the second of two.
An adult male human.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
(slang) A brief sexual relationship or encounter.
The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.
The digit or figure 1.
(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
A ball-like object, located near the top of a crown, symbolizing the globe.
(Northern England, Geordie, Ireland) A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
A partially specified but unnamed person.
(plural only) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
Someone who is not important or well-known.
(US, military) Initialism of Military Entrance Processing Command.
(with the) The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.
A native or inhabitant of Canada.
The basic tenets of an area of knowledge, basics, fundamentals.
(plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
Having its origin in the influence of human activity on nature.
(medicine, of vaccine) Inactivated.
(countable, chiefly in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.
(slang) The testicles.
(countable) A person from India.
(South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building.
(Hawaii) black nightshade (Solanum nigrum).
A surname originating as a patronymic.
(N)
(German: , or more unusually or ) one of the four playing card suits in a deck of German-suited and Swiss-suited playing cards.