people

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Humans considered as a group or in indefinite numbers. Often treated as a plural of person, especially in compounds.
• noun The mass of ordinary persons; the populace. Used with the.
• noun A body of persons living in the same country under one national government; a nationality.
• noun The citizens of a political unit, such as a nation or state; the electorate. Used with the.
• noun A body of persons sharing a common religion, culture, or language.
• noun Persons with regard to their residence, class, profession, or group.
• noun Persons subordinate to or loyal to a ruler, superior, or employer.
• noun A person's family, relatives, or ancestors.
• noun Informal Animals or other beings distinct from humans.
• transitive verb To settle or inhabit with people; populate.
• transitive verb To be present in or on (a place).

from The Century Dictionary.

• To stock with people or inhabitants; populate.
• noun The whole body of persons who compose a community, tribe, race, or nation: as, the people of England; the people of Israel.
• noun The mass of persons inhabiting a place; subjects or citizens, as distinguished from their rulers or from men of rank or men of authority in any profession; the commonalty; the populace: usually preceded by the definite article: as, the king and the people; one of the people; the darling of the people.
• noun Those who are closely connected with a person as subjects, domestics, attendants, followers, etc.; also, one's family, relatives, etc.: as, a pastor and his people.
• noun Persons; any persons indefinitely; men: a collective noun taking a verb in the plural, and admitting in colloquial use a numeral adjective: as, people may say what they please; a number of country people were there; people of fashion; there were not ten people present.
• noun Human beings; men.
• noun A set or crowd; company.
• noun Synonyms People, Nation, Race, Tribe, Clan. People stands for the ruled in distinction from the rulers, as king and people, or for the mass of the community, etc., without thought of any distinction between rulers and ruled. The word nation stands for a political body viewed as a whole. The unity may be ethnic, instead of political; this sense, however, is less common. Race is the most common word for all those who seem to make a whole in community of descent and are too numerous to be called a tribe, clan, or family: as, the Anglo-Saxon race is one branch of the Germanic, tracing its descent through certain Low German tribes. Tribe, apart from certain peculiar meanings, stands for a subdivision of a race: as, the twelve tribes of Israel; ordinarily the word is not applied to civilized persons; we speak of tribes of Indians, Arabs, Africans. Clan is used chiefly of the old organization of kinsmen among the Scotch Highlanders; where used of others, it expresses a similar organization, with intense loyalty and partizanship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
• noun The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
• noun Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; ; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German.
• noun The mass of community as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd.
• noun One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations.
• noun One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
• noun Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; community.
• noun A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
• 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.
• 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the body of citizens of a state or country
• verb furnish with people
• noun (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
• verb fill with people
• noun members of a family line
• noun the common people generally