transcription, транскрипция: [ pi:p(ə)l ]
( peoples, peopling, peopled)
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 people have lost their homes.
...the people of Angola.
...homeless young people...
I don’t think people should make promises they don’t mean to keep...
N-PLURAL
2.
The people is sometimes used to refer to ordinary men and women, in contrast to the government or the upper classes.
...the will of the people.
N-PLURAL : the N
3.
A people is all the men, women, and children of a particular country or race.
...the native peoples of Central and South America...
N-COUNT-COLL
4.
If a place or country is peopled by a particular group of people, that group of people live there.
It was peopled by a fiercely independent race of peace-loving Buddhists.
...a small town peopled by lay workers and families.
= populate
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed by/with n , V-ed