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Antonyms for people
ˈpi pəlpeo·ple
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term people.
Wiktionary
peoplenoun
A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
Synonyms:
fans, groupies, supporterspeoplenoun
The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
peoplenoun
Synonyms:
ledeEtymology 2, leodpeoplenoun
Synonyms:
community, folk, collective, caste, race, tribe, club, congregation, nation, class, clanpeoplenoun
English Synonyms and Antonyms
people
A community is in general terms the aggregate of persons inhabiting any territory in common and viewed as having common interests; a commonwealth is such a body of persons having a common government, especially a republican government; as, the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A community may be very small; a commonwealth is ordinarily of considerable extent. A people is the aggregate of any public community, either in distinction from their rulers or as including them; a race is a division of mankind in the line of origin and ancestry; the people of the United States includes members of almost every race. The use of people as signifying persons collectively, as in the statement "The hall was full of people," has been severely criticized, but is old and accepted English, and may fitly be classed as idiomatic, and often better than persons, by reason of its collectivism. As Dean Alford suggests, it would make a strange transformation of the old hymn "All people that on earth do dwell" to sing "All persons that on earth do dwell." A state is an organized political community considered in its corporate capacity as "a body politic and corporate;" as, a legislative act is the act of the state; every citizen is entitled to the protection of the state. A nation is an organized political community considered with reference to the persons composing it as having certain definite boundaries, a definite number of citizens, etc. The members of a people are referred to as persons or individuals; the individual members of a state or nation are called citizens or subjects. The population of a country is simply the aggregate of persons residing within its borders, without reference to race, organization, or allegiance; unnaturalized residents form part of the population, but not of the nation, possessing none of the rights and being subject to none of the duties of citizens. In American usage State signifies one commonwealth of the federal union known as the United States. Tribe is now almost wholly applied to rude peoples with very imperfect political organization; as, the Indian tribes; nomadic tribes. Compare MOB.
Synonyms:
commonwealth, community, nation, population, race, state, tribe
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
people
Antonyms:
aristocracy, nobility, government, ruler, oligarchySynonyms:
nation, community, populace, mob, crowd, vulgar, herd, mass, persons, inhabitants, commonalty, fellow-creatures, tribe, race
Princeton's WordNet
peoplenoun
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
"old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
Synonyms:
the great unwashed, masses, mass, hoi polloi, multitude, citizenrycitizenry, peoplenoun
the body of citizens of a state or country
"the Spanish people"
Synonyms:
the great unwashed, masses, mass, hoi polloi, multitude, citizenrypeoplenoun
members of a family line
"his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
Synonyms:
the great unwashed, masses, mass, hoi polloi, multitude, citizenrymultitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashedverb
the common people generally
"separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
Synonyms:
tidy sum, plurality, wad, peck, mint, plenty, lot, pack, hoi polloi, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, pile, muckle, volume, mass, good deal, stack, mountain, multitude, deal, battalion, throng, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, citizenry, heap, mess, sight, large number, concourse, spate, the great unwashed, bulk, great deal, masses, potpeopleverb
fill with people
"Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"
peopleverb
furnish with people
"The plains are sparsely populated"
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
peoplenoun
Synonyms:
folks, inhabitants, population, citizens, populace, commonalty, rabble, canaille, relatives, relations, kindred, laitypeoplenoun
Associated words:
demotic, democratic, democracy, popular, lay, depopulate, depopulationpeopleverb
How to use people in a sentence?
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I love how people think that’s new, like, welcome to the past 13 years.
I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.
We’re inventing new ways, it seems, to drive people out of the teaching profession in Kansas.
I take responsibility for what I said and there are no excuses for those comments. I am so sorry, i sincerely apologize to the people I hurt with my words: to my colleagues, their families, especially to Mike, Sean and your son. As a mother, I know better and I am sorry. I am truly ashamed. I know this is the result of my own actions. I am sorry to your entire family for putting you through this.
$ 5,000 down payment and we fully furnish their homes with food, furniture, linens, garden tools, TVs, computers all the way down to the toothbrush, the more I learned, we wanted to get into the business of giving people the potential to break their cycle of poverty.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#105 | people | |
#353 | government | |
#14974 | ruler | |
#28354 | nobility | |
#41997 | aristocracy | |
#67382 | oligarchy |
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