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Meaning of "the people" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE PEOPLE

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WHAT DOES THE PEOPLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

The Sunday People

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881. It is published by the Trinity Mirror Group, and shares website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011 it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By January 2014 the circulation had shrunk to 374,820.

Definition of the people in the English dictionary

The definition of the people in the dictionary is the mass of persons without special distinction, privileges, etc. Other definition of the people is the body of persons in a country, esp those entitled to vote.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE PEOPLE

the paranormal
the Parcae
the park
the past
the Peloponnese
the pen
the Peninsula
the Pennsylvania Dutch
the Pennsylvanian
the penny dropped
the Perigordian
the Permian
the Peter Principle
the Phanerozoic
the pictures
the Pilgrim Fathers
the pill
the pinch
the Pinta
the pipes

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE PEOPLE

beautiful people
boat people
businesspeople
chosen people
Constantinople
country people
craftspeople
flower people
good people
House of the People
lay people
little people
peculiar people
people
salespeople
spokespeople
street people
the beautiful people
the good people
townspeople
tradespeople

Synonyms and antonyms of the people in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the people» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE PEOPLE

Find out the translation of the people to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the people from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the people» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

las personas
570 millions of speakers

English

the people
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लोग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشعب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

люди
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

as pessoas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জনগণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les gens
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

orang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Menschen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

wong
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người dân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மக்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

insanlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

il popolo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ludzie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

люди
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oamenii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οι άνθρωποι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die mense
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

människorna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

folket
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the people

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE PEOPLE»

The term «the people» is very widely used and occupies the 2.468 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of the people
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «the people».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE PEOPLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the people» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the people» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the people

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10 QUOTES WITH «THE PEOPLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the people.
1
Eve Arnold
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
2
Brooks Atkinson
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
3
George Bancroft
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
4
Clive Barnes
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
5
Brian Michael Bendis
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
6
Ernesto Bertarelli
If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you're a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you're committed to the people you look after, it's very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.
7
Kerry Bishe
I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.
8
Ian Botham
The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
9
Carol Moseley Braun
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
10
Octavia Butler
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE PEOPLE»

Discover the use of the people in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the people and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
People of the Book: A Novel
The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur ...
Geraldine Brooks, 2008
2
Europe and the People Without History
'The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention.
Eric R. Wolf, 2010
3
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of ...
In A Capitalism for the People, Zingales makes a forceful, philosophical, and at times personal argument that the roots of American capitalism are dying, and that the result is a drift toward the more corrupt systems found throughout Europe ...
Luigi Zingales, 2012
4
We the People: Foundations
Although American history is dominated by normal politics, our tradition places a higher value on mobilized efforts to gain the consent of the people to new governing principles.In a dualist democracy, the rare triumphs of constitutional ...
Bruce A. Ackerman, 1993
5
A Man of the People
Annotation A very funny, very disturbing fiction about political corruption in the new Nigeria.
Chinua Achebe, 1988
6
The People Factor: How Building Great Relationships and ...
He needed a beyond-the-basics study guide for Relational IQ. The People Factor is his solution. God works in our lives through our relationships. Yet, all too often, we get our relationship advice from the most toxic sources we can find.
Van Moody, 2014
7
Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
The nearest thing to a full length book ever written by Marcus Garvey. Three years before his death in 1937, Garvey assembled his most trusted organisers for an intensive, secret month-long course of instruction.
Marcus Garvey, Tony Martin, 1986
8
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park
delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale.
Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar, 1992
9
We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the ...
In We the Media, nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist and blogger Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make--and consume--the news.
Dan Gillmor, 2008
10
We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational ...
In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe.
Étienne Balibar, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE PEOPLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the people is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hundreds Of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In …
NEW YORK -- More than 400,000 people turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City on Sunday, just days before many of the world's leaders ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»

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