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people 1, noun (oh)



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1 ?persons?
2 ?people in general?
3 ?country/race?
4 the people
5 somebody's people
6 of all people
7 ?to get attention?
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[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: peuple, from Latin populus; POPULAR]
?PERSONS?
[plural] used as the plural of 'person' to refer to men, women, and children
::How many people were at the meeting?
::At least 40 people were killed.
::the people who live next door
?PEOPLE IN GENERAL?
[plural] people in general, or people other than yourself
::I don't care what people think.
::People can be really mean sometimes.
theatre/business etc people
(=people who work or are involved in the theatre etc)
::The hotel was full of business people.
?COUNTRY/RACE?
[C also + plural verb] the people who belong to a particular country, race, or area
the British/American etc people
::He pledged that he would never lie to the American people.
people of
::the Basques, a people of north western Spain
::the peoples of Europe
the people [plural] a) all the ordinary people in a country or a state, not the government or ruling class
::The people rebelled.
::Rice formed the staple food of the common people .
::The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people (=someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people) .
the people's party/army etc
(=belonging to or popular with the ordinary people)
::the People's Liberation Army
::Diana - the people's princess
b) AmE used in court cases to represent the government of the US or of a particular state
::The People vs. Romero
sb's people [plural] a) the people that a king or leader rules or leads
::The king ordered his people to prepare for war.
b) the people who work for a person or organization
::A manager's job is to make his or her people feel part of the system.
c) old-fashioned your relatives, especially your parents, grandparents etc
::Do your people live round here?
of all people
spoken used to say that someone is the person you would least or most expect to do something
::Why should he, of all people, get a promotion?
::You of all people should have known better.
?TO GET ATTENTION?
[plural] AmE spoken informal used to get the attention of a group of people
::Listen up, people!
-see also little people
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