Definition of Peoples

1. Noun. The human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group. "The indigenous peoples of Australia"

Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Generic synonyms: People

Definition of Peoples

1. Noun. (plural of people notdot=1) (already a plural form) - a race, group or nationality. ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of people) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Peoples

1. people [v] - See also: people

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peoples

people of color
people of colour
people of size
people people
people person
people pleaser
people pleasers
people skills
peopled
peoplehood
peoplehoods
peopleless
peopler
peoplers
peoples (current term)
peopleware
peopling
peoplish
peorias
pep
pep pill
pep pills
pep rally
pep squad
pep squads
pep talk
pep talks

Literary usage of Peoples

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"7800 Dimensions of body 7600 Disease, Racial liability to America, peoples of Anatomical anthropology Anthropoids, Anatomy of Anthropology, Comparative (Zoo ..."

2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"The Hellenic peoples. § 2. Distinctive Features of Hellenic Civilization. ... as one of the wandering imperfectly nomadic Aryan peoples who were gradually ..."

3. Sociological Study of the Bible by Lucy Blanche (Littelton) Masterman, Louis Wallis, William Shakespeare (1912)
"CHAPTER V THE ANCIENT SEMITIC peoples Israel was one of a number of Semitic peoples.—The nation called "Israel," which appears in the foreground of Bible ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"WHY THE FEDERAL SYSTEM is NOT ADAPTED TO ALL peoples, AND HOW THE ... Natural causes of union must exist between confederate peoples besides the laws—What ..."

5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"And if the subject of history is to be the study of the movements of peoples and of humanity, and not episodes from the lives of individual men, ..."

6. Journal by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1891)
"April 5th - PROFESSOR G. SERGI delivered a lecture in Italian on the Origin of the Aryan peoples illustrated by a large number of skulls from the University ..."

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