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say it: PEE-puhl
people is a noun and verb meaning "(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively". It carries 6 recorded senses.
plural
the body of citizens of a state or country
“the Spanish people”
members of a family line
“his people have been farmers for generations”
“are your people still alive?”
the common people generally
“separate the warriors from the mass”
“power to the people”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for people come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.