单词 | people |
例句 | people plural noun 1.•crowds of people:human beings, persons, individuals, humans, mortals, (living) souls, personages, 'men, women, and children' | informal folks. 2.•the American people:citizens, subjects, electors, voters, taxpayers, residents, inhabitants, (general) public, citizenry, nation, population, populace. 3.•a man of the people:common people, proletariat, masses, populace, rank and file, commonality, third estate, plebeians | derogatory hoi polloi, common herd, great unwashed, proles, plebs. 4.•her people don't live far away:family, parents, relatives, relations, folks, kinsmen, kin, kith and kin, kinsfolk, flesh and blood, nearest and dearest. 5.(singular noun) •the peoples of Africa:race, (ethnic) group, tribe, clan.▶verb •the Beothuk who once peopled Newfoundland:populate, settle (in), colonize, inhabit, live in, occupy | formal reside in, be domiciled in, dwell in.WORD LINKS the study of people, cultures, and human origins relating to a people who have a common national or cultural tradition (of language) used by ordinary peopleWord Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.EASILY CONFUSED WORDS See |
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