Etymology: Middle English peple, from Anglo-French pople, peple, peuple, from Latin populus
Date: 13th century
1plural: human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest 2plural:human beings, persons —often used in compounds instead of persons<salespeople> —often used attributively <people skills> 3plural: the members of a family or kinship 4plural: the mass of a community as distinguished from a special class <disputes between the people and the nobles> —often used by Communists to distinguish Communists from other people 5pluralpeoples: a body of persons that are united by a common culture, tradition, or sense of kinship, that typically have common language, institutions, and beliefs, and that often constitute a politically organized group 6: lower animals usually of a specified kind or situation 7: the body of enfranchised citizens of a state