Usually means: Humans collectively forming societies, communities.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. people, the People, the people: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. people, the People, the people: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. people: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. people, the people: Collins English Dictionary
  5. people: Vocabulary.com
  6. People, People, People, people, people, people, people: Wordnik
  7. people, the people: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -people, people: Wiktionary
  9. -people, people: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. people: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. people: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. People, people, the people: Dictionary.com
  13. people: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. people: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PEOPLE, People (American magazine), People (Animal Collective EP), People (Australian magazine), People (Barbra Streisand album), People (Barbra Streisand song), People (Hillsong United album), People (Hothouse Flowers album), People (Howard Jones album), People (James Brown album), People (King Crimson song), People (Mi-Sex song), People (Microsoft service), People (TV series), People (Windows), People (band), People (disambiguation), People (magazine), People (play), People (song), People, People, The People (Common song), The People (EP), The People (film), The People: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. People: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. people: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. people: Rhymezone
  19. people: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. people: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. People: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. people: Free Dictionary
  23. people: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. The People, people: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. people: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. people: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. people, the people: Legal dictionary
  5. people: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. people: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. people: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PEOPLE: Acronym Finder
  3. The People, people: Idioms
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. people: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. people: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See peopled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, collective) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
noun:  A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
noun:  One's colleagues or employees.
noun:  A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
noun:  The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
noun:  People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
verb:  (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
verb:  (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
verb:  (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
verb:  (rare, informal) To interact with people; to socialize.

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