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Peoples

noun

The human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group.

People

noun

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively. "There were at least 200 people in the audience"

The body of citizens of a state or country. Synonym: citizenry.

Members of a family line. "Are your people still alive?"

The common people generally. Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed. "Power to the people"

verb

(past & past part. peopled; pres. part. peopling)

Fill with people.

Furnish with people.

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"Peoples" Quotes from Famous Books

... enabled to breathe an air which does not contain this ferment, or which contains it only in insignificant amounts; thus one may even sleep in the open air during the night in very unhealthy districts without running any risks. The knowledge of this fact has led some peoples of Greece, and the inhabitants of the Pontine Marshes, to sleep in the open air on platforms raised on poles four or five meters (twelve to fifteen feet) in height. Some people in the Roman Campagna have built houses for themselves on top of the ancient tombs, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various

... the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.... Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with ...

— Four Americans - Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman • Henry A. Beers

... path is hid and winds that blow from out the ages sweep me on to that chill borderland where time's spent sands engulf lost peoples ...

— Palaces and Courts of the Exposition • Juliet James

... Eastern character was fraternally instinctive. A treaty was easily negotiated in which France promised to drive Russia from Georgia and to supply Persia with artillery; in return the Shah was to break with England, confiscate British property, instigate the peoples of Afghanistan and Kandahar to rebellion, set on foot an army to invade India, and in case the French should also despatch a land force against India, he was to give them free passage along a line of march to be subsequently laid ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... elected by proportional representation, 28 seats allocated from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 14 seats from the Republika Srpska; members elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms); and the House of Peoples or Dom Naroda (15 seats - 5 Bosniak, 5 Croat, 5 Serb; members elected by the Bosniak/Croat Federation's House of Representatives and the Republika Srpska's National Assembly to serve four-year terms); note - Bosnia's election law specifies four-year ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

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