Does word peoples exist

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3 [countable] all the persons who live in a particular place or belong to a particular country, race, etc

the French people

the native peoples of Siberia

So, when used in this sense, the word «people» has a plural form and it is grammatically correct.

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The dreaded Elements of Style have this to say on this matter:

The word people is not to be used with words of number, in place of persons. If of “six people” five went away, how many “people” would be left?

So at least in formal or technical discourse you might want to prefer “persons”.

I have also observed that “persons” is generally and widely used in official documents, highway signs, etc. in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

In informal contexts, however, “people” is probably preferable, especially as it will allow you to steer clear of the, er, people from all walks of life who will try to tell you that “persons” is not a valid word at all.

But as both your question and Strunk point out, you should avoid mixing them too much, because there is no exact correspondence between “person”/”persons” and “people”/”peoples”.

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@ouldwdaa yes it does exist but it’s «people» without a plural «s» at the end because «people» is already considered plural so you can simply say » hello everybody / everyone » although «hello people» is correct we don’t really say it !

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@A_rw_a i know the word people but i am asking about peples with s because i heard someone saying that

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@ouldwdaa oh than that is incorrect to say peoples it’s just people plural as its self Maybe with » ‘s » it has a different meaning » people’s » is correct meaning something belongs to the people for example «the people’s president » the president of the people but you can’t say «there is so many peoples here» …I hope that helps

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@A_rw_a i heard that word «peoples» from Canada persident’s speech at UN as i think when he said: » …to the shamefully continuing marginalization of Indigenous peoples..»

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@ouldwdaa I just looked it up … Although both people and peoples
are grammatically correct, they cannot be used interchangeably because they have different meanings. … Here, people (singular) means a group of human beings belonging to a particular race/ethnicity. The plural of such groups is called peoples…People is the usual plural of person, meaning individual human, although one also sees persons. When speaking about a number of individuals, peoples is never correct…
‘peoples’ is a word but it is not so commonly used. ‘People’ means ‘more than one person’ or ‘a group of human beings called collectively’. ‘Peoples’ means ‘a group of people from different origins (generally nations) called collectively’.

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@ouldwdaa I hope that helps ..I Even learned something new today!

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@ouldwdaa yeah no problem!

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

peeps, peops (slang)
peple (obsolete)
pipple (pronunciation spelling)
ppl, ppl.

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk.

Originally a singular noun (e.g. The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness –2 Samuel 17:29, King James Version, spelling modernized^[1]), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːpəl/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpipəl/, /ˈpipl̩/, [ˈpʰipɫ̩]
Rhymes: -iːpəl
Hyphenation: peo‧ple
Homophone: papal (some dialects)

Noun[edit]

people (countable and uncountable, plural peoples)

Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

Synonyms: (slang) peeps, lede, leod

There were so many people at the restaurant last night.
- c. 1607, plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods:
  
  XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
- 1813, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice‎^[1], →OCLC:
  
  «What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.»
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 November 2017:
  
  There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[3], →ISBN, archived from the original on May 9, 2016:
  
  “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don’t know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
  Here’s rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
- 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎^[4], volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 23 October 2018, page 11:
  
  But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist‎^[5], volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 3 November 2018, page 72-3:
  
  Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
(countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.

Synonyms: collective, community, congregation, folk
- 1966, Dick Tuck, Concession Speech:
  
  The people have spoken, the bastards.
A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

Synonyms: fans, groupies, supporters
- 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Isaiah 1:3:
  
  The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
One’s colleagues or employees.
- 2001, Vince Flynn, Transfer of Power (fiction), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 250:
  
  Kennedy looked down at Flood’s desk and thought about the possibilities. «Can you locate him?»
  «I already have my people checking on all three. So far I’ve only been able to confirm the whereabouts of the Jordanian officer.»
- 2008, Fern Michaels, Hokus Pokus (fiction), →ISBN, page 184:
  
  Can I have one of my people get back to your people, Mr. President?» She tried to slam the phone back into the base and failed.
A person’s ancestors, relatives or family.

Synonyms: kin, kith, folks

My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

Synonyms: populace, commoners, citizenry
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[6], volume 189, number 2, archived from the original on August 24, 2013, page 27:
  
  The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] «share the things you love with the world» and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people’s control of their own attention.

Noun[edit]

people

plural of person.

Usage notes[edit]

When used to mean «persons» (meaning 1 above), «people» today takes a plural verb. However, in the past it could take a singular verb.
Nowadays, «persons» as the plural of «person» is considered highly formal. All major style guides recommend people rather than persons. For example, the Associated Press and the New York Times recommend «people» except in quotations and set phrases. Under the traditional distinction, which Garner says is pedantic,^[2] persons describes a finite, known number of individuals, rather than the collective term people. «Persons» is more used in technical and legal contexts.

Derived terms[edit]

all things to all people
beautiful people
bright young people
good people
man of the people
people person
peoplehood
peopleless
peopleness
people’s army
people’s democracy
people’s republic
people’s war
peopley
you people

Descendants[edit]

Jamaican Creole: piipl
Pijin: pipol
→ Sranan Tongo: pipel
→ Tok Pisin: pipel

Translations[edit]

a body of human beings; a group of two or more persons

Afrikaans: mense (af)
Albanian: njerëz, tëtanë (Gheg), lem, polem (sq)
Arabic: نَاس‎ pl (nās), خَلْق‎ (ar) m (ḵalq)

Egyptian Arabic: ناس‎ m pl (nās)

South Levantine Arabic: ناس‎ m pl (nās)
Aramaic: עם‎
Armenian: մարդիկ (hy) (mardik)
Aromanian: oaminj m pl, lumi f
Assamese: মানুহ (manuh), লোক (lük), ৰাইজ (raiz)
Asturian: xente (ast) f
Azerbaijani: xalq (az), el (az), budun
Baluchi: مہلوک‎ (mahlúk)
Belarusian: лю́дзі m pl (ljúdzi)
Breton: tud (br) pl
Bulgarian: хо́ра (bg) pl (hóra), лю́де m pl (ljúde)
Catalan: gent (ca) f
Chamicuro: klistyano
Cherokee: ᏴᏫ (yvwi)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 人 (yue) (jan⁴)

Dungan: жын (řɨn)

Mandarin: 人們／人们 (zh) (rénmen), 人 (zh) (rén)
Czech: lid (cs) m, lidé (cs) pl
Dalmatian: ziant
Danish: folk (da) pl
Dolgan: киһилэр pl (kihiler), дьон (con)
Dutch: mensen (nl) pl, lui (nl) pl, volk (nl) n, personen (nl) pl
Emilian: ginta f, gint f, żänt f, persòuni f pl
Esperanto: homoj (eo)
Estonian: inimesed (et) pl
Faroese: tjóð f, fólk n
Fijian: kai
Finnish: väki (fi), ihmiset (fi) pl
French: gens (fr) pl

Middle French: gens

Old French: gent f
Friulian: int f
Fula: yimɓe
Galician: xente (gl) f
Georgian: ხალხი (xalxi)
German: Leute (de) pl, Menschen m pl

Alemannic German: Lüüte pl
Greek: κόσμος (el) m (kósmos), άνθρωποι (el) m pl (ánthropoi)

Ancient: λαός m (laós)
Hawaiian: poʻe
Hebrew: אֲנָשִׁים‎ m pl (anashim)
Hindi: लोग (hi) (log), जनता (hi) f (jantā)
Hungarian: emberek (hu)
Hutterisch: Leid pl
Icelandic: fólk (is) n
Interlingua: personas pl, gente
Irish: daoine (ga) pl, lucht m
Istriot: zento m
Italian: gente (it) f
Jamaican Creole: piipl
Japanese: 人々 (ja) (ひとびと, hitobito), 人達 (ひとたち, hitotachi), 人 (ja) (ひと, hito)
Jarawa: əŋ
Javanese: wong, tiyang
Kambaata: manna
Kashaya: nohpʰo
Kashmiri: لوٗکھ‎ (ks) m pl (lūkh), لُکھ‎ (ks) m pl (lukh)
Kazakh: халық (kk) (xalyq), адамдар pl (adamdar)
Khmer: មនុស្ស (km) (mɔnuh)
Kom (Cameroon): ghelɨ
Kongo: bantu
Korean: 사람들 (saramdeul), 사람 (ko) (saram)
Kumyk: эл (el)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: خەڵک‎ (xellk)

Northern Kurdish: gel (ku), xelk (ku) m, mirov (ku) m
Kyrgyz: кишилер (ky) pl (kişiler)
Laboya: ata
Lao: ປະຊາຊົນ (pa sā son)
Latgalian: ļauds
Latin: populus (la) m, gēns (la) f
Latvian: cilvēki pl, ļaudis f
Lithuanian: žmonės (lt) m pl
Macedonian: луѓе pl (luǵe)
Malagasy: olona (mg)
Malay: orang (ms)
Maltese: nies pl
Manchu: ᡠᡵᠰᡝ (urse), ᡳᡵᡤᡝᠨ (irgen)
Mandailing Batak: halak
Manx: pobble
Maori: tangata (mi)
Middle English: peple, folk
Minangkabau: urang (min)
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: ард (mn) (ard), хүмүүс (mn) (xümüüs)
Nanai: гурун
Northern Sami: veahka
Norwegian:

Bokmål: folk (no) pl, lyd (no) m, mennesker (no) n pl
Occitan: gent (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:

Cyrillic: людиє m pl (ljudie)
Old East Slavic: люди pl (ljudi)
Old English: menn m pl
Old Occitan: gentz
Oromo: uummaata
Persian: مَردُم‎ (fa) (mardom)
Phoenician: 𐤍𐤐𐤔‎ (npš)
Polish: ludzie (pl) pl
Portuguese: pessoas (pt) f pl, gente (pt) f
Punjabi: ਲੋਕ (lok)
Romanian: oameni (ro) m pl, lume (ro) f
Russian: лю́ди (ru) m pl (ljúdi), (dated) люд (ru) m (ljud)
Sanskrit: जन (sa) m (jana)
Sardinian: gente, genti, tzente, zente
Scots: fowk
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: љу̑ди m pl

Roman: ljȗdi (sh) m pl
Sicilian: genti (scn)
Sidamo: manna
Slovak: ľudia (sk) m pl, ľud m
Slovene: ljudje m pl
Somali: dad (so)
Spanish: gente (es) f
Swedish: folk (sv) n
Tajik: мардум (tg) (mardum)
Taos: t’óyna
Telugu: ప్రజలు (te) (prajalu), జనం (te) (janaṁ)
Tetum: ema
Thai: คน (th) (kon), ผู้ (th) (pûu), บุคคล (th) (bùk-kon)
Turkish: halk (tr), millet (tr), insanlar (tr)
Turkmen: halk, il, iil
Tuvan: улус (ulus), чон (çon)
Uab Meto: atoni
Ukrainian: лю́ди (uk) f pl (ljúdy)
Urdu: لوگ‎ pl (log)
Uzbek: odamlar (uz)
Venetian: dente, xente, zente
Vietnamese: người (vi)
Volapük: mens
Walloon: djins (wa) f pl
Welsh: pobl (cy)
West Frisian: folk, lju
Wolof: nit (wo)
Yakut: дьон (jon)
Zazaki: helq, sar (diq) c
Zulu: abantu

a group of persons forming or belonging to a particular nation etc.

Afrikaans: volk (af)
Albanian: popull (sq) m
Amharic: ህዝብ (həzb)
Arabic: خَلْق‎ (ar) m (ḵalq), شَعْب‎ (ar) m (šaʕb), قَوْم‎ m (qawm)
Aramaic:

Western/Levantine Aramaic: עַמָּא‎ m (ʿammā), עם‎ m (ʿam)
Armenian: ժողովուրդ (hy) (žołovurd)
Aromanian: popul, gintã f, ghimtã, mileti, yenos, poplu
Asturian: pueblu (ast) m
Avar: халкъ (xalqxʼ)
Azerbaijani: xalq (az), el (az), əhl
Bashkir: халыҡ (xalıq)
Belarusian: наро́д (be) m (naród), на́цыя (be) f (nácyja)
Bengali: জনগণ (bn) (jonogon)
Bulgarian: наро́д (bg) m (naród), на́ция (bg) f (nácija)
Burmese: ပြည်သူပြည်သား (my) (pranysu-pranysa:)
Buryat: зон (zon)
Catalan: poble (ca) m
Chechen: халкъ (xalqʼ)
Cherokee: ᏴᏫ (yvwi)
Chinese:

Dungan: жынмин (řɨnmin), минзў (minzw), минжын (minřɨn)

Mandarin: 國民／国民 (zh) (guómín), 民族 (zh) (mínzú), 人民 (zh) (rénmín)
Chuvash: халӑх (halăh)
Crimean Tatar: halk
Czech: lid (cs) m, lidé (cs) pl, národ (cs) m
Danish: folk (da) n
Dolgan: дьон
Dutch: volk (nl) n, bevoling
Eastern Mari: калык (kalyk)
Esperanto: popolo (eo)
Estonian: rahvas (et)
Extremaduran: puebru
Faroese: tjóð f
Finnish: kansa (fi), väestö (fi)
French: peuple (fr) m
Friulian: popul m
Galician: pobo (gl) m
Georgian: ხალხი (xalxi)
German: Volk (de) n
Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰 f (þiuda), 𐌺𐌽𐍉𐌸𐍃 f (knōþs)
Greek: λαός (el) m (laós), κόσμος (el) m (kósmos), έθνος (el) n (éthnos)

Ancient: ἔθνος n (éthnos), δῆμος m (dêmos)
Greenlandic: inuiaat
Haitian Creole: pèp
Hani: sseiqmiq
Hebrew: עַם‎ (he) m (am), אומה אֻמָּה‎ (he) f (‘umá)
Hindi: समाज (hi) m (samāj), लोग (hi) m (log)
Hungarian: nép (hu)
Icelandic: þjóð (is) f, fólk (is) n
Ido: populo (io)
Indonesian: rakyat (id), masyarakat (id), orang (id), orang-orang (id)
Irish: pobal m, lucht m
Istriot: puopulo m
Italian: popolo (it) m, nazione (it) f
Japanese: 国民 (ja) (こくみん, kokumin), 民族 (ja) (みんぞく, minzoku), 人民 (ja) (じんみん, jinmin)
Kannada: ಜನರು (kn) (janaru)
Kashubian: nôród m, lud m
Kazakh: халық (kk) (xalyq), ұлт (kk) (ūlt)
Khmer: ប្រជាជន (prɑciə cŭən), ពលរដ្ឋ (km) (pŭəllĕəʼrŏət), ប្រជាជាតិ (km) (prɑciə ciət)
Korean: 국민(國民) (ko) (gungmin), 민족(民族) (ko) (minjok), 인민(人民) (ko) (inmin)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: گەل‎ (ckb) (gel), ملەت‎ (mlet)

Northern Kurdish: gel (ku), xelk (ku), alem (ku)
Kyrgyz: кишилер (ky) pl (kişiler), калк (ky) (kalk), эл (ky) (el)
Lao: ຄົນ (lo) (khon), ປະຊາຊົນ (pa sā son)
Latin: gens (la) f, populus (la) m
Latvian: tauta f, ļaudis pl
Lithuanian: tauta (lt) f, liaudis (lt) f
Macedonian: народ m (narod)
Malay: orang-orang
Maltese: poplu m
Manchu: ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ (gurun)
Maori: tangata (mi)
Mazanderani: بهنهوار‎ (benevár)
Middle English: peple, folk
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: ард (mn) (ard)
Navajo: diné
Ngazidja Comorian: kaumu
North Frisian: följk
Northern Sami: álbmot
Norwegian:

Bokmål: folk (no) n
Occitan: pòble (oc) m
Old Church Slavonic:

Cyrillic: людъ m pl (ljudŭ), народъ m (narodŭ)
Old East Slavic: народъ m (narodŭ)
Old English: folc n
Old Occitan: poble
Pashto: خلک‎ (ps) m pl (xálək), خلګ‎ m pl (xaləg)
Persian: مَردُم‎ (fa) (mardom), خلق‎ (fa) (xalq) (archaic)
Plautdietsch: Volkj (nds) n
Polish: naród (pl) m, lud (pl) m
Portuguese: povo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਲੋਕ (lok)
Romanian: popor (ro) n, neam (ro) n, națiune (ro) f
Romansch: pievel m, pövel m
Russian: наро́д (ru) m (naród), на́ция (ru) f (nácija)
Rusyn: наро́д m (naród)
Sardinian: pobulu, poburu, populu
Scots: fowk
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: на́род m

Roman: národ (sh) m
Slovak: národ (sk) m, ľud m
Slovene: narod (sl) m
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: lud m

Upper Sorbian: lud m
Spanish: pueblo (es) m
Swedish: folk (sv) n, folkslag (sv) n
Tabasaran: халкъ (ꭓalq̄)
Tajik: мардум (tg) (mardum), халқ (tg) (xalq)
Tamil: மக்கள் (ta) (makkaḷ)
Tatar: халык (tt) (xalıq), кешеләр (keşelär)
Telugu: ప్రజలు (te) (prajalu)
Thai: คน (th) (kon), ประชาชน (th) (bprà-chaa-chon)
Tibetan: མི་དམངས (mi dmangs)
Turkish: halk (tr)
Turkmen: halk, il
Tuvan: улус (ulus), чон (çon)
Ukrainian: наро́д (uk) m (naród), на́ція (uk) f (nácija)
Uyghur: خەلق‎ (xelq)
Uzbek: halq (uz), ahl (uz)
Venetian: popoło m
Vietnamese: nhân dân (vi) (人民), dân tộc (vi) (民族 (vi))
Walloon: peupe (wa)
Welsh: pobl (cy) m
Yakut: дьон (jon)
Yiddish: פֿאָלק‎ n (folk)
Zazaki: helq, sar (diq) c, mılet (diq) c
Zhuang: yinzminz

a group of persons regarded as being employees etc.

Afrikaans: mense (af)
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Danish: folk (da) n
Dutch: mensen (nl) pl, volk (nl) n
Esperanto: popolo (eo)
Finnish: väki (fi), henkilökunta (fi)
French: équipe (fr) f
Galician: persoal m
German: Leute (de) pl, Volk (de) n
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: 人々 (ja) (ひとびと, hitobito), 臣民 (ja) (しんみん, shinmin)
Korean: 사람들 (saramdeul), 신하(臣下) (ko) (sinha), 백성(百姓) (ko) (baekseong)
Latin: populus (la) m
Manchu: ᡳᡵᡤᡝᠨ (irgen)
Middle English: peple, folk
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: иргэн (mn) (irgen)

Mongolian: ᠢᠷᠭᠡᠨ (irgen)
Ngazidja Comorian: kaumu class 9
Northern Sami: veahka
Norwegian:

Bokmål: folk (no) n
Old English: menn m pl
Polish: ludzie (pl) pl, naród (pl) m
Portuguese: pessoal (pt) m
Swedish: folk (sv) n
Thai: บุคลากร (th) (bùkkálaagon)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: dân (vi) (not employees), nhân viên (vi) (employees)
Walloon: peupe (wa) m, djins (wa) f pl
Zazaki: teni

a person’s ancestors, relatives or family

Afrikaans: familie (af)
Arabic: أَهْل‎ m (ʔahl)
Bulgarian: род (bg) m (rod), семе́йство (bg) n (seméjstvo), ли́ния (bg) f (línija)
Catalan: família (ca) f, els meus
Danish: slægt c
Dutch: familie (nl) f, verwanten (nl) pl
Esperanto: gento
Finnish: suku (fi), sukulaiset (fi)
French: les miens (fr) m pl
Galician: aboenza f, tronquidade f, fruxe f, familia (gl) f
German: Familie (de) f, Verwandten (de) pl, Angehörigen (de) pl
Greek: σόι (el) n (sói), δικοί του m pl (dikoí tou)
Italian: famiglia (it) f
Japanese: 家族 (ja) (かぞく, kazoku), 両親 (ja) (りょうしん, ryōshin), 親類 (ja) (しんるい, shinrui), 先祖 (ja) (せんぞ, senzo)
Korean: 가족(家族) (ko) (gajok), 양친 (ko) (yangchin), 근친자 (geunchinja), 선조 (ko) (seonjo)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: باو باپیران‎ (baw bapîran)
Latin: familia (la), gens (la)
Lithuanian: giminė (lt) f, šeima (lt) f
Middle English: folk
Navajo: shikʼéí
Norwegian:

Bokmål: slekt m
Persian: خویشان‎ (fa) pl (xišân)
Polish: ogół (pl) m
Portuguese: família (pt) f
Russian: родня́ (ru) f (rodnjá) (colloquial)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: оби́тељ f, по̀родица f

Roman: obítelj (sh) f, pòrodica (sh) f
Slovene: družina (sl) f
Spanish: familia (es) f
Swedish: släkt (sv) c, anhörig (sv) c
Taos: t’óyna
Vietnamese: gia đình (vi)
Zazaki: kuflet m

Verb[edit]

people (third-person singular simple present peoples, present participle peopling, simple past and past participle peopled)

(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
- 1674, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, Act II, Scene I:
  
  He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav’n with Angels, Earth with Man.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 159:
  
  Scenes, long since forgotten, had been peopling his solitude with one still cherished image paramount over all; one young fair face, whose sweet eyes seemed to look upon him reproachfully:…
(intransitive) To become populous or populated.
(transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
- a. 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
  
  […] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]
(rare, informal) To interact with people; to socialize.
- 2018, Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Darkest Star, Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 149:
  
  I don’t people well.” “Not peopling well is a crap excuse,” I retorted, and started to step around him, but a sudden thought occurred to me.
- 2019, Casey Diam, Love, [7]:
  
  My head tilted as Calvin said, «Don’t worry about him. He just doesn’t people well.
  
  The fuck? I people. Sometimes. With people I know.
- 2020, Teri Anne Stanley, Lucky Chance Cowboy, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:
  
  I don’t people well.” He laughed at that. “You do okay,” he assured her.

Usage notes[edit]

The informal interaction sense is chiefly used in the negative.

Derived terms[edit]

peopler

Translations[edit]

to fill with people

Bulgarian: населвам (naselvam), населя (naselja)
Catalan: poblar (ca)
Dutch: bevolken (nl)
Finnish: asuttaa (fi)
French: peupler (fr)
German: bevölkern (de)
Hungarian: benépesít (hu)
Italian: popolare con
Macedonian: населува (naseluva)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: befolke
Portuguese: povoar (pt)
Romanian: popula (ro)
Russian: населя́ть (ru) (naseljátʹ)
Slovene: naseliti
Spanish: poblar con
Swedish: befolka (sv)
Ukrainian: населя́ти impf (naseljáty), насели́ти pf (naselýty), заселя́ти impf (zaseljáty), засели́ти pf (zaselýty)

to become populous

Catalan: poblar-se
Dutch: bevolkt worden (literally “become populated”)
Finnish: lisääntyä (fi)
French: se peupler (fr)
Hungarian: benépesül, benépesedik
Norwegian:

Bokmål: befolkes (passive form)
Portuguese: povoar-se
Spanish: poblarse (es)
Swedish: befolkas (sv)

to inhabit, to occupy

Bulgarian: обитавам (bg) (obitavam), живея (bg) (živeja), населявам (bg) (naseljavam)
Dutch: bevolken (nl), bewonen (nl)
Esperanto: enloĝi
Finnish: asua (fi)
French: peupler (fr)
German: bewohnen (de), besiedeln (de), bevölkern (de)
Hungarian: lakik (hu), belakik (hu)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: befolke
Portuguese: povoar (pt)
Spanish: poblar (es)
Swedish: befolka (sv)
Ukrainian: населя́ти impf (naseljáty)

References[edit]

people in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

^ The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 2 Samuel 17:29, column 2: “ […] The people is hungrie, and wearie, and thirſtie in the wilderneſſe.”
^ Garner, Bryan A. (2016), “people”, in Garner’s Modern English Usage, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 682

Anagrams[edit]

Peploe

French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

pipole

Etymology[edit]

Since 2000, named after People, an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /pi.pɔl/, /pi.pœl/

Noun[edit]

people m or f by sense (plural people)

(countable) a celebrity, celebrities, famous person(s)

Synonyms: célébrité, personne connue, personnalité, personnage public
- 2004, Emmanuel Davidenkoff and Didier Hassoux, Luc Ferry: une comédie du pouvoir, 2002–2004 (Luc Ferry: A Comedy of Power, 2002–2004), Hachette, →ISBN,
  
  Le novice en politique contre le mammouth « Éducation nationale ». Ça mérite la sympathie. Et puis c’est un people. Les gens aiment et détestent à la fois. Ils sont fascinés. Le bonheur sur papier glacé. Les vacances entre Saint-Trop’, la Martinique et Deauville.
  
  The political novice against the mammoth «National Education». That merited sympathy. Then, too, he was a celebrity. People loved and hated at the same time. They were fascinated. Happiness on ice paper. Vacations between Saint-Tropez, Martinique, and Deauville.
- 2008, Martine Delvaux, «L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder» («Frédéric Beigbeder’s L’égoïsme romantique (Romantic Egotism)«), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, →ISBN, page 95:
  
  Oscar Dufresne est un people anti-people, un macho impuissant, un intellectuel qui ne dit rien d’intelligent, un faux sadique et un faux masochiste, un anti-autobiographe.
  
  Oscar Dufresne is a celebrity who is anti-celebrity, a powerless macho man, an intellectual who says nothing intelligent, a fake sadist and a fake masochist, an anti-autobiographer.

Usage notes[edit]

The French noun people is frequently italicized as a loanword, as in the quotations above.

Derived terms[edit]

pipolisation

Noun[edit]

people m (uncountable)

(uncountable) showbusiness, popular media that feature stories on celebrities and famous people (as represented by magazines such as People, (UK) Hello!, (France) Paris Match)

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

people

Alternative form of peple

Old French[edit]

Noun[edit]

people m (oblique plural peoples, nominative singular peoples, nominative plural people)

(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of pueple

References[edit]

pople_1 in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022

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@ouldwdaa yes it does exist but it’s «people» without a plural «s» at the end because «people» is already considered plural so you can simply say » hello everybody / everyone » although «hello people» is correct we don’t really say it !

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