Synonyms for people
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Community — persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family…
community, folk, family, race, tribe, congregation, nationality, laity, collective, kindred, clan
2. Populace — the mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
Other
popular, state, commonwealth, lede, peeps slang, commonalty rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
the native peoples of Borneo
- n. 2
A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
His people live out west.
- n. 3
The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
The election is over and the people have spoken.
- n. 4
plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
Forms
- Plural
- peoples → communities, folks, families, races…
Choose the right word
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.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- community Tom had to perform 100 hours of community service.
- folk I don't think Tom knows anything about folk music.
- tribe Members of the tribe settled down along the river.
- congregation Ziri left and the rest of the congregation followed.
- nation Mexico is a nation that borders the United States.
- populace The populace was in thrall to the dictator's whims.
By length
- 4 letters
- race1, mass1, folk1, clan1, kith, lede
- 5 letters
- world1, state1, folks1, tribe1, peeps1, laity3
- 6 letters
- family3, nation2, masses2, rabble2, polloi2
- 7 letters
- popular3, kindred2
- 8 letters
- populace3
- 9 letters
- community4, multitude3, citizenry4
- 10 letters
- population4, collective3, commonalty
- 11 letters
- nationality5
- 12 letters
- commonwealth3, congregation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (laity3 = 3 syllables).