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people 音标拼音: [p'ipəl] n. 人,人们,民族,人类,公民
vt. 使住满人 人,人们,民族,人类,公民使住满人 people n 1: ( plural) any group of human beings ( men or women or children) collectively; " old people"; " there were at least 200 people in the audience" 2: the body of citizens of a state or country; " the Spanish people" [ synonym: { citizenry}, { people}] 3: members of a family line; " his people have been farmers for generations"; " are your people still alive?" 4: the common people generally; " separate the warriors from the mass"; " power to the people" [ synonym: { multitude}, { masses}, { mass}, { hoi polloi}, { people}, { the great unwashed}] v 1: fill with people; " Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes" 2: furnish with people; " The plains are sparsely populated" People \ Peo" ple\ ( p[= e]" p' l), 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. [ 1913 Webster] Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. -- Gen. xlix. 10. [ 1913 Webster] The ants are a people not strong. -- Prov. xxx. 25. [ 1913 Webster] Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues. -- Rev. x. 11. [ 1913 Webster] Earth' s monarchs are her peoples. -- Whitter. [ 1913 Webster] A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. -- T. Parker. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Peopleis a collective noun, generally construed with a plural verb, and only occasionally used in the plural form ( peoples), in the sense of nations or races. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity. [ 1913 Webster] People were tempted to lend by great premiums. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] People have lived twenty- four days upon nothing but water. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The mass of community as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people. [ 1913 Webster] And strive to gain his pardon from the people. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 4. With a possessive pronoun: ( a) One' s ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English. ( b) One' s subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. " You slew great number of his people." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: { People}, { Nation}. Usage: When speaking of a state, we use people for the mass of the community, as distinguished from their rulers, and nation for the entire political body, including the rulers. In another sense of the term, nation describes those who are descended from the same stock; and in this sense the Germans regard themselves as one nation, though politically subject to different forms of government. [ 1913 Webster]
People \ Peo" ple\ ( p[= e]" p' l), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Peopled} ( p[= e]" p' ld) p. pr. & vb. n.; { Peopling} ( p[= e]" p' l[ i^] ng).] [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 206 Moby Thesaurus words for " people": Everyman, John Doe, Public, Richard Roe, agnate, ancestors, ancestry, anchor, animal kingdom, assembly, billet at, bivouac, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bodies, body politic, bourgeoisie, breed, brethren, brood, burrow, camp, children, churchgoers, citizenry, clan, clansman, class, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, colonize, come to anchor, common man, common people, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commonwealth, community, community at large, congregation, connections, consanguinean, constituency, consumers, cultural community, deme, demos, denizen, distaff side, distant relation, domesticate, drop anchor, dwellers, empeople, enate, ensconce, establish residence, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, family, flesh, flesh and blood, flock, fold, folk, folks, forebears, general public, gens, gentry, german, get, grass roots, habitancy, hearth, hive, hoi polloi, homefolks, house, household, inhabit, inhabitants, issue, keep house, kin, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, laity, laymen, line, lineage, linguistic community, live at, locate, masses, matriclan, men, menage, minyan, mobile vulgus, moor, mortals, move, multitude, nation, nationality, near relation, nest, next of kin, nonclerics, nonordained persons, occupy, offspring, order, parish, parishioners, park, patriclan, people at large, people in general, perch, persons, phratry, phyle, plant, plant kingdom, plebeians, plebes, polity, populace, populate, population, posterity, proletariat, public, race, ragtag and bobtail, rank and file, relations, relatives, relocate, reside, roost, seculars, sept, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, settle in, sheep, sib, sibling, silent majority, sit down, society, spear kin, spear side, species, speech community, spindle kin, spindle side, squat, stand, state, stay at, stem, stirps, stock, strain, strike root, subjects, sword side, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenant, the citizenry, the crowd, the general public, the people, the populace, the population, the public, third estate, totem, tribe, tribesman, uterine kin, whole people, world, you and me |
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