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PEOPLES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group
Example:
the indigenous peoples of Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("peoples" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb people
Context examples:
A person having origins in the original peoples of the Indian sub-continent.
(Asian Indian, NCI Thesaurus)
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Korea.
(Korean, NCI Thesaurus)
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
(Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, NCI Thesaurus)
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of China.
(Chinese, NCI Thesaurus)
Primarily refers to a person having origins in the original peoples of the Indian sub-continent, a subset of which formed Pakistan.
(Pakistani, NCI Thesaurus)
Nay, Sir John, said the prince reprovingly, all peoples have their own use and customs.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is der way der rich peoples chases after der appetite when it is no more and is running away.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A person having origins in the original peoples of Asia, but not China, India, Korea, the Philippine Islands or Vietnam.
(Other Asian, NCI Thesaurus)
He entered strange ports of sun-washed lands, and trod market-places among barbaric peoples that no man had ever seen.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A Native American (NA) is a person having origins in one of the indigenous peoples of North America, who lived on the continent prior to the European colonization.
(Native American, NCI Thesaurus)
