(~s, peopling, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
People are men, women, and children. People is normally used as the plural of person , instead of ‘persons’.
Millions of ~ have lost their homes.
...the ~ of Angola.
...homeless young ~...
I don’t think ~ should make promises they don’t mean to keep...
N-PLURAL
2.
The ~ is sometimes used to refer to ordinary men and women, in contrast to the government or the upper classes.
...the will of the ~.
N-PLURAL: the N
3.
A ~ is all the men, women, and children of a particular country or race.
...the native ~s of Central and South America...
N-COUNT-COLL
4.
If a place or country is ~d by a particular group of ~, that group of ~ live there.
It was ~d by a fiercely independent race of peace-loving Buddhists.
...a small town ~d by lay workers and families.
= populate
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by/with n, V-ed