people

1. 1.

   fill with people

   “Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes”

   Broaderpopulate
2. 2.

   furnish with people

   “The plains are sparsely populated”

   Broaderpopulate

Other forms of people

plural

peoples·

past tense

peopled·

present participle

peopling·

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.

Questions about people

What does people mean?

people means "(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in people?

people has 2 syllables: peo-ple. The stress falls on "peo". In IPA it is /ˈpipəl/.

What is another word for people?

Close synonyms include citizenry, multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is people a common word?

people is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with people?

1 word rhymes with people. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.