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| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | body politic, bourgeois, clan, common people, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, herd, hoi polloi*, horde, humanity, humankind, kin, masses, mob, multitude, nation, nationality, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file*, riffraff*, society, tribe, John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, cats, citizens, commonality, general public, heads, human race, humans, inhabitants, mortals, person in the street, persons, plebeians |
| Notes: | people is a term equivalent to cows and horses - like a herd of humans; persons is used in regard to our external aspects and refers to a number of individuals |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, customer, guy, human, identity, individual, individuality, joker*, life, man, mortal, party, personage, personality, self, somebody, soul, specimen, spirit, unit*, woman, gal, living soul |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commonwealth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political or geographic area |
| Synonyms: | body politic, democracy, federation, nation, people, republic, society, citizenry, citizens, commonality, polity |
| Main Entry: | constituency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | voting public |
| Synonyms: | body politic, city, county, district, electorate, faction, nation, people, precinct, state, system, ward, balloters, body of voters, citizenry, electors, voters, voting area |
| Main Entry: | empire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place ruled by sovereign; rule |
| Synonyms: | authority, command, commonwealth, control, domain, dominion, federation, government, people, power, realm, sovereignty, supremacy, sway, union |
| Main Entry: | everybody/everyone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | all involved, all human beings; the whole world |
| Synonyms: | all, anybody, generality, masses, people, populace, all and sundry, each one, each person, every person, the public, the whole, young and old |
| Antonyms: | nobody/noone |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, birth, blood, brood, clan, class, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, genealogy, genre, group, house, household, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, network, pedigree, people, progeny, race, relationship, strain, subdivision, system, tribe, ancestors, children, descendants, forebears, generations, heirs and assigns, in-laws, ménage, parentage, progenitors, relations, relatives, siblings |
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
| Synonyms: | body politic, clan, community, family, group, house, household, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, general public, inhabitants, ménage |
| Main Entry: | folks |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family |
| Synonyms: | brood, clan, horde, household, kin, people, tribe, parents, relatives |
| Main Entry: | herd |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, bevy, brood, clan, collection, covey, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, flock, gathering, hoi polloi*, horde, lot, mass, mob, multitude, nest, pack, people, populace, press, rabble, school, swarm, throng, gaggle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humankind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the human race |
| Synonyms: | community, flesh, humanity, mortality, people, populace, society, Homo sapiens, human beings, human species, mortals |
| Main Entry: | inhabit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take up residence in |
| Synonyms: | abide, crash, dwell, indwell, live, locate, lodge, make one's home, occupy, park, people, perch, populate, possess, reside, roost, settle, squat, stay, tenant |
| Antonyms: | depart, leave, move, vacate |
| Main Entry: | kin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blood relative |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, extraction, family, folk, house, kindred, kinship, lineage, member, people, race, relation, relationship, sibling, stock, tribe, kinsfolk, kinsperson, kith |
| Main Entry: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, heap, herd, horde, host, infinity, jam*, legion, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, ocean*, oodles*, people, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, sea, swarm, throng, turnout, commonalty, great number, infinitude, loads, numbers, plenitude, scores, slew |
| Antonyms: | handful, portion, single, zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | country with its own government |
| Synonyms: | body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union, principality |
| Main Entry: | personnel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | employees of business or other enterprise |
| Synonyms: | cadre, corps, crew, faculty, group, human resources, office, organization, people, shop, staff, troop, work force, helpers, members, men and women, troops, workers |
| Main Entry: | population |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inhabitants of a place |
| Synonyms: | community, culture, folk, people, populace, public, society, state, citizenry, denizens, dwellers, natives, residents |
| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people of community; people interested in something |
| Synonyms: | audience, clientele, community, country, electorate, everyone, following, masses, mob, multitude, nation, people, populace, population, society, suite, bodies, buyers, citizens, commonalty, followers, heads, men and women, patrons, supporters, voters |
| Main Entry: | reside |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | live or exist in |
| Synonyms: | abide, be intrinsic to, be vested, bide, consist, continue, crash*, dig*, dwell, endure, hang one's hat, inhabit, inhere, lie, locate, lodge, nest, occupy, park*, people, perch, populate, remain, rest with, roost, settle, sojourn, squat, stay, take up residence, tenant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethnic group; family |
| Synonyms: | association, blood, caste, clan, class, division, dynasty, horde, house, ilk, kin, kind, kindred, lineage, people, race, seed, society, sort, stock, type |
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