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people

/ˈpi.pəl/ sustantivo A1

En español: gente, pueblo, familia

  1. Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc. (countable) · a people apart· an industrious people
  2. A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader. (countable, uncountable) · Moses said, "Let my people go."· his people were weary
  3. One's colleagues or employees. (countable, uncountable) · I'll have my people call your people.· I have my people working on it.
  4. A person's ancestors, relatives or family. (countable, uncountable) · My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.· His people live out west.
  5. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens. (countable, uncountable) · The people have successfully stood up against tyranny and totalitarianism.· The election is over and the people have spoken.
  6. People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional. (countable, uncountable) · People don't like it when you tweak their noses.· Teachers are people too.

Plural peoples

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But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.’ Only I don’t think,” Alice went on, “that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 22 · B2
“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 7 · B2
“But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 7 · B2
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not here before,” said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words “DRINK ME,” beautifully printed on it in large letters.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 6 · B2

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