people

• "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"

• "The plains are sparsely populated"

• "old people"
• "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

• "the Spanish people"

Synonyms

• citizenrythe body of citizens of a state or country

• "his people have been farmers for generations"
• "are your people still alive?"

• "separate the warriors from the mass"
• "power to the people"

Synonyms

• multitudea large indefinite number; a large gathering of people ; the common people generally
• massesthe common people generally
• massformed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field ; (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) ; (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist ; a body of matter without definite shape; the common people generally; the property of something that is great in magnitude; a musical setting for a Mass; a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
• hoi polloithe common people generally
• the great unwashedthe common people generally