Noun

• S: (n) people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively) "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
• S: (n) citizenry, people (the body of citizens of a state or country) "the Spanish people"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• member meronym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) people (members of a family line) "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
• S: (n) multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed (the common people generally) "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

Verb

• S: (v) people (fill with people) "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"
• S: (v) people (furnish with people) "The plains are sparsely populated"