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people
A	noun
	1	people
			(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚people ╚business people; businesspeople ╚timid; cautious ╚brave ╚blood ╚blind ╚baffled ╚ancients ╚age group; age bracket; cohort
	2	people
			members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚kin; kin group; kinship group; kindred; clan; tribe ╚genealogy; family tree ╚lineage; line; line of descent; descent; bloodline; blood line; blood; pedigree; ancestry; origin; parentage; stemma; stock ╚family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; sept; phratry ╚people
	3	citizenry, people
			the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚citizenry, people ╚governed ╚electorate
	4	multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people
			the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people ╚following; followers ╚audience ╚laity; temporalty
B	verb
	1	people, populate
			fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
		Category Tree: change; alter; modify ╚fill; fill up; make full ╚people, populate
	2	dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate
			make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
		Category Tree: be ╚dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate

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