people
/ˈpi.pəl/ verb C2- To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
- To become populous or populated.
- To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
He/she/it peoples · Past peopled · Past participle peopled · -ing form peopling
Verb forms
- Base form
- people
- He/she/it
- peoples
- Past
- peopled
- Past participle
- peopled
- -ing form
- peopling
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“Now the mischief is out; depend upon it the custom-house people went rummaging about the ship in our absence, and discovered poor Dantès’ hidden treasures.”
The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told.
Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.
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