Antonyms for People
ˈpi pəlpeo·ple

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1. peoplenoun

   A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

   Synonyms:
   fans, groupies, supporters

2. peoplenoun

   The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

   Synonyms:
   commoners, populace, citizenry

3. peoplenoun

   Synonyms:
   ledeEtymology 2, leod

4. peoplenoun

   Synonyms:
   community, folk, collective, caste, race, tribe, club, congregation, nation, class, clan

5. peoplenoun

   Synonyms:
   kith, folks, kin

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. people

   A community is in general terms the aggregate of persons inhabiting any territory in common and viewed as having common interests; a commonwealth is such a body of persons having a common government, especially a republican government; as, the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A community may be very small; a commonwealth is ordinarily of considerable extent. A people is the aggregate of any public community, either in distinction from their rulers or as including them; a race is a division of mankind in the line of origin and ancestry; the people of the United States includes members of almost every race. The use of people as signifying persons collectively, as in the statement "The hall was full of people," has been severely criticized, but is old and accepted English, and may fitly be classed as idiomatic, and often better than persons, by reason of its collectivism. As Dean Alford suggests, it would make a strange transformation of the old hymn "All people that on earth do dwell" to sing "All persons that on earth do dwell." A state is an organized political community considered in its corporate capacity as "a body politic and corporate;" as, a legislative act is the act of the state; every citizen is entitled to the protection of the state. A nation is an organized political community considered with reference to the persons composing it as having certain definite boundaries, a definite number of citizens, etc. The members of a people are referred to as persons or individuals; the individual members of a state or nation are called citizens or subjects. The population of a country is simply the aggregate of persons residing within its borders, without reference to race, organization, or allegiance; unnaturalized residents form part of the population, but not of the nation, possessing none of the rights and being subject to none of the duties of citizens. In American usage State signifies one commonwealth of the federal union known as the United States. Tribe is now almost wholly applied to rude peoples with very imperfect political organization; as, the Indian tribes; nomadic tribes. Compare MOB.

   Synonyms:
   commonwealth, community, nation, population, race, state, tribe

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. people

   Antonyms:
   aristocracy, nobility, government, ruler, oligarchy

   Synonyms:
   nation, community, populace, mob, crowd, vulgar, herd, mass, persons, inhabitants, commonalty, fellow-creatures, tribe, race

Matched Categories

1. • Dwell
   • Family
   • Group
   • Populate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. peoplenoun

   (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

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

   Synonyms:
   the great unwashed, masses, mass, hoi polloi, multitude, citizenry

2. citizenry, peoplenoun

   the body of citizens of a state or country

   "the Spanish people"

   Synonyms:
   the great unwashed, masses, mass, hoi polloi, multitude, people, citizenry

3. peoplenoun

   members of a family line

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

   Synonyms:
   the great unwashed, masses, mass, hoi polloi, multitude, citizenry

4. multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashedverb

   the common people generally

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

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, plurality, wad, peck, mint, plenty, lot, pack, hoi polloi, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, pile, muckle, volume, mass, good deal, stack, mountain, multitude, deal, battalion, throng, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, citizenry, heap, mess, people, sight, large number, concourse, spate, the great unwashed, bulk, great deal, masses, pot

5. peopleverb

   fill with people

   "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"

6. peopleverb

   furnish with people

   "The plains are sparsely populated"

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. peoplenoun

   Synonyms:
   folks, inhabitants, population, citizens, populace, commonalty, rabble, canaille, relatives, relations, kindred, laity

2. peoplenoun

   Associated words:
   demotic, democratic, democracy, popular, lay, depopulate, depopulation

3. peopleverb

   Synonyms:
   populate, colonize

How to use People in a sentence?

1. Cezar Shaaya:

   I was sitting at home and I saw the people on the move and so I came out, i am married, I have mortgage payments due every month and I am not working. It's the state's fault.

2. Warren Hanes:

   It's possible there are people who simply responded emotionally to the issue of less regulation.

3. Roger Bootle:

   I remember well all the people who said if we were not in the euro that would be it, actually, what happened was it strengthened the City. It killed all the minor financial centers: Amsterdam, Vienna, Milan... We all know the euro business moved to London.

4. President Trump:

   Theyre allowed to kill our people. Theyre allowed to torture and maim our people. Theyre allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And were not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesnt work that way.

5. Ben Houchen:

   The Conservatives have been lent the votes of local people, and if we don't get it right - and if Boris Johnson doesn't get it right - I absolutely believe that they'll all go Labour again in five years' time.

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