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people (?), n. [OE. peple, people, OF. pueple, F. peuple, fr. L. populus. Cf. Populage, Public, Pueblo.] 1
| people | (?), n. [OE. peple, people, OF. pueple, F. peuple, fr. L. populus. Cf. Populage, Public, Pueblo.] 1.
The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
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-Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10.
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-The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. 25.
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-Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues. Rev. x. 11.
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-Earth's monarchs are her peoples. Whitter.
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-A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. T. Parker.
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| people | (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peopled p. pr. & vb. n. Peopling (/).] [Cf. OF. popler, puepler, F. puepler. Cf. Populate.]
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. Peopled heaven with angels. Dryden.
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-As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton.
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