OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4023

people

/ˈpi.pəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gente
plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
There were so many people at the restaurant last night.
These six people are waiting for the bus.
pueblo
Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
a people apart
an industrious people
familia
A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
His people live out west.
My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
pueblo
The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
The election is over and the people have spoken.
The people have successfully stood up against tyranny and totalitarianism.
📚 verb • entry_id 4024

people

/ˈpi.pəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
poblar con
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man.
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 reproa…
poblarse
To become populous or populated.
poblar
To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
[…] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]
Phrases