S: (n) people (people%1:14:00::) ((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) peoples (peoples%1:14:00::) (the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group) "the indigenous peoples of Australia"
S: (n) ancients (ancients%1:14:00::) (people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe))
S: (n) baffled (baffled%1:14:00::) (people who are frustrated and perplexed) "the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled"
S: (n) blind (blind%1:14:00::) (people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group) "he spent hours reading to the blind"
S: (n) community (community%1:14:03::) (a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common) "he was well known throughout the Catholic community"; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"; "they formed a community of scientists"
S: (n) damned (damned%1:14:00::) (people who are condemned to eternal punishment) "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned"
S: (n) uninitiate (uninitiate%1:14:00::) (people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity) "it diverts the attention of the uninitiate"
S: (n) network army (network_army%1:14:00::) (a group of like-minded people united by the internet; a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern) "a network army of software programmers contribute free software to those who want it"
S: (n) nationality (nationality%1:14:00::) (people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation) "immigrants of the same nationality often seek each other out"; "such images define their sense of nationality"
S: (n) peanut gallery (peanut_gallery%1:14:00::) ((figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)) "he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery"
S: (n) pocket (pocket%1:14:00::) (a small isolated group of people) "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance"
W: (v) patronage (patronage%2:32:00::) [Related to: patronage] (be a regular customer or client of) "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"
S: (n) patronage (patronage%1:04:01::) ((politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support)
S: (n) trade (trade%1:04:01::), patronage (patronage%1:04:02::) (the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers) "even before noon there was a considerable patronage"
Verb
S: (v) patronage (patronage%2:34:00::) (support by being a patron of)