## Meanings
1. Human beings in general, considered as a group.
2. All the persons belonging to a particular nation, race, or community.
3. The members of your family or your close group.
4. To fill a place with people.

## Examples
- There were so many people at the restaurant last night.
- The people of this country are proud of their history.
- Your people have been farmers for generations.
- Settlers gradually peopled the empty plains.

## Derived Forms
- antipeople
- depeople
- dispeople
- elle-people
- empeople
- hillspeople
- meeple
- overpeople
- people-carrier
- people-person
- people-pleasing
- people-pod

## Related Forms
- sheeple

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: puple
- Root: people
- Root: pueple
- Root: populus
- Root: *poplos

## Etymology
From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk. Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plur…

## AI Etymology
People comes from Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk. Originally used with singular verbs. The historical chain includes puple (Middle English), people (xno), pueple (Old French), populus (Latin), populus (itc-ola), *poplos (Proto-Italic). In present-day English it covers human beings in general, considered as a group, all the persons belonging to a particular nation, race, or community, and the members of your family or your close group. The wider family includes derived forms such as antipeople, depeople, dispeople, elle-people, empeople and related forms such as sheeple.

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- People & Society

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