| Main Entry: | population |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inhabitants of a place |
Synonyms: |
citizenry, community, culture, denizens, dwellers, folk, natives, people, populace, public, residents, society, state |
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
Synonyms: |
body politic, clan, community, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, family, general public, group, house, household, inhabitants, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, ménage, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe |
| 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, principality, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
Synonyms: |
John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe |
Antonyms: |
animals, plants |
| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people of community; people interested in something |
Synonyms: |
audience, bodies, buyers, citizens, clientele, commonalty, community, country, electorate, everyone, followers, following, heads, masses, men and women, mob, multitude, nation, patrons, people, populace, population, society, suite, supporters, voters |
| Main Entry: | society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humankind, people |
Synonyms: |
association, camaraderie, civilization, commonality, commonwealth, community, companionship, company, comradeship, culture, friendship, general public, humanity, jungle*, nation, population, public, rat race, social order, world, zoo |
| Main Entry: | society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
blue, conventional, life, universal, a la mode, admissible in society, admitted in society, anthropocentric, antinuke, antisocial, apolitical, biracial, civil, classless, courtly, dashing, de rigeur, designer, en grand tenue, fashionable, fast, focative, genteel, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, hard, homogeneous, horse, in full dress, indigenous, industrial, janty, jaunty, ladylike, lonely, modish, newfangled, nomothetic, old, polite, politically correct, presentable, pro, pronuclear, pschutt, psychosocial, refined, right, ritualistic, rural, semple, sexist, stylish, substandard, technetronic, thoroughbred, ticky, un, underdeveloped, underprivileged, unembarrassed, unfashionable, unskilled, up, well, well
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