Usually means: Humans collectively forming societies, communities.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word people:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. people: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. people, the People, the people: Merriam-Webster
  3. people, the People, the people: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. people: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. people, the people: Collins English Dictionary
  6. people: Vocabulary.com
  7. People, People, People, people, people, people, people: Wordnik
  8. people, the people: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. -people, people: Wiktionary
  10. -people, people: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. people: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. people: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. People, people, the people: Dictionary.com
  14. people: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. people: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. 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
  17. People: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. people: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. people: Rhymezone
  20. people: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. people: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. People: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. people: FreeDictionary.org
  24. people: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. The People, people: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. 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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