#people  (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
  supertype:  group__grouping  any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
  member:  person
  equal:  people (pm)
  member of:  human_race
  subtype:  age_group__agegroup__age_bracket__cohort  a group people having approximately the same age
     subtype:  aged.people  people who are old; "special arrangements were available for the aged"
     subtype:  young.people__youth  young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt"
  subtype:  baffled.people  people who are frustrated and perplexed; "the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled"
  subtype:  blind.people  people who have severe visual impairments; "he spent hours reading to the blind"
  subtype:  blood.people  people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"
  subtype:  brave.people  people who are brave; "the home of the free and the brave"
  subtype:  timid.people__cautious  people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
  subtype:  business_people  people who transact business (especially business executives)
  subtype:  damned.people  people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned"
  subtype:  dead.people  people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
     subtype:  slain.people  people who have been slain (as in battle)
  subtype:  living.people  people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
  subtype:  deaf.people  people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language"
  subtype:  defeated.people__discomfited  people who are defeated; "the Romans had no pity for the defeated"
  subtype:  disabled.people  people who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped
  subtype:  doomed.people__lost  people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"
  subtype:  enemy.people  any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy"
  subtype:  common_people__folk  people in general; "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
     subtype:  grass_roots.people__grassroot  the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
     subtype:  home_folks  folks from your own home town
     subtype:  riffraff__rabble__ragtag__ragtag_and_bobtail  disparaging terms for the common people
        subtype:  trash  worthless people
  subtype:  free_people__free  people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"
  subtype:  homebound.people  people who are confined to their homes
  subtype:  homeless.people  people who are homeless; "the homeless lived on the city streets"
  subtype:  enlightened.people__initiate  people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"
  subtype:  uninitiate.people  people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it diverts the attention of the uninitiate"
  subtype:  mentally_retarded.people__mentallyretarded  people who are mentally retarded; "he started a school for the mentally retarded"
  subtype:  retreated.people  people who have retreated; "he had only contempt for the retreated"
  subtype:  sick.people  people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
  subtype:  wounded.people__maimed  people who are wounded; "they had to leave the wounded where they fell"
  subtype:  socio-economic_class__class__clas__socialclas  people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
     subtype:  world.socio-economic_class__domain  people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world"
        subtype:  academia__academe  the academic world
        subtype:  Grub_Street  the world of literary hacks
     subtype:  age_class__ageclas  people in the same age range
     subtype:  agriculture  the class of people engaged in growing food
     subtype:  fraternity__brotherhood  people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity"
     subtype:  estate_of_the_realm__estate  a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
        subtype:  fourth_estate__press__pres  newspaper writers and photographers
           subtype:  gutter_press  (British) press that engages in sensaional journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures)
           subtype:  press_corps  a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics; "the White House press corps"
     subtype:  labor__labour__working_class__workingclas__proletariat  a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
        subtype:  labor_force__laborforce__labor_pool__laborpool  the source of trained people from which workers can be hired
     subtype:  lower_class__lowerclas  the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
     subtype:  middle_class__bourgeoisie  the social class between the lower and upper classes
        subtype:  petite_bourgeoisie__petit_bourgeois__petitbourgeoi__petty_bourgeoisie__pettybourgeoisie  lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)
     subtype:  booboisie  class consisting of all those who are considered boobs
     subtype:  commonalty__commonality__common  class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank
        subtype:  third_estate__thirdestate  the third estate of the realm; the commons (especially in Britain or France) viewed as forming a political order having representation in a parliament
     subtype:  peasantry  the class of peasants
     subtype:  demimonde  a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior
     subtype:  underworld  the criminal class
     subtype:  yeomanry.socio-economic_class  class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
     subtype:  caste.socio-economic_class  a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
     subtype:  caste  (Hindu) a hereditary social class stratified according to ritual purity
        instance:  Brahmin__Brahman  Kshatriya  Vaisya  Shudra__Sudra
     subtype:  upper_class__upperclas__upper_crust__uppercrust  the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
        subtype:  elite  a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
           subtype:  elect__chosen  an exclusive group of people: "one of the elect who have power inside the government"
           subtype:  cream.elite  the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
           subtype:  intelligentsia__clerisy  an educated and intellectual elite
              subtype:  literati  the literary intelligentsia
           subtype:  high_society__society__beau_monde__smart_set__bon_ton  the fashionable elite
           subtype:  few.elite  a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"
           subtype:  aristocracy  a privileged class holding hereditary titles
              subtype:  noblesse  members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)
              subtype:  peerage__baronage  the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
              subtype:  second_estate__lords_temporal__lordstemporal  the second estate of the realm: the nobility (especially British nobility) of the rank of duke or marquess or earl or viscount or baron
              subtype:  knighthood  aristocrats holding the rank of knight
              subtype:  samurai  feudal Japanese military aristocracy
              subtype:  Ferdinand_and_Isabella  joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I
              subtype:  William_and_Mary  joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II
        subtype:  gentry__aristocracy  the most powerful members of a society
           subtype:  landed_gentry__squirearchy  the gentry who own land (considered as a class)
        subtype:  ruling_class  the class of people exerting power or authority
     subtype:  firing_line  the most advanced and responsible group in an activity; "the firing line is where the action is"
     subtype:  immigrant_class__immigrantclas  recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds
     subtype:  center.socio-economic_class  politically moderate persons; centrists
     subtype:  old_school__oldschool  a class of people favoring traditional ideas
     subtype:  market  the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
        subtype:  black_market.market__blackmarket  people who engage in illicit trade
     subtype:  craft.socio-economic_class__trade  people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"
     subtype:  womanhood  women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"
  subtype:  blood_group__bloodgroup__blood_type__bloodtype  people whose blood (usually just the red blood cells) has the same antigens
     subtype:  group_A__A__type_A  the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen
     subtype:  group_B__B__type_B  the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
     subtype:  group_AB__AB__type_AB  the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens
     subtype:  group_O__O__type_O  the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens; "people with type O blood are universal donors"
     subtype:  Rh-positive_blood_type__Rh_positive  the blood group (approximately 85% of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen)
     subtype:  Rh-negative_blood_type__Rh_negative  the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen)
  subtype:  nation_people__nation__land__country__a_people__apeople  the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
     subtype:  British_people__British__the_British__Brits  the people of Great Britain
     subtype:  English_people__English__the_English  the people of England
     subtype:  Irish_people__Irish__the_Irish  people of Ireland or of Irish extraction
     subtype:  French_people__French__the_French  the people of France
     subtype:  Spanish_people__Spanish  the people of Spain
     subtype:  Swiss_people__Swiss__the_Swiss  the people of Switzerland
  subtype:  populace__public__world  people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
     subtype:  admass  the segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British)
  subtype:  population  the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
  subtype:  community.people  a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community"
     subtype:  convent.community  a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
     subtype:  house.community  the members of a religious community living together
  subtype:  coevals__coeval__contemporaries__generation  all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
     subtype:  youth_culture__youthculture  young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture
        subtype:  youth_subculture__youthsubculture  a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre
           subtype:  flower_people__hippies__hipsters  a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
           subtype:  teddy_boys  a British youth subculture that first appeared in the mid-1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock'n'roll music; proletarian and xenophobic, they were involved in race riots in the United Kingdom
           subtype:  punks__punk  a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes)
           subtype:  rockers__bikers  originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers
           subtype:  skinheads__skinhead__bootboys  a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore working shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism
           subtype:  mods  a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters
           instance:  Rastafari__Rastas  beat_generation__beats__beat__beatniks
     subtype:  peer_group  contemporaries of the same status
  subtype:  clientele__patronage__business  customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele"
  subtype:  rank_and_file  people who constitute the main body of any group
  subtype:  smart_money.people__smartmoney  people who are highly experienced or who have inside information; "the smart money said Truman would lose the election"
  subtype:  unconfessed_people__unconfessedpeople  people who have not confessed; "the unconfessed cannot be forgiven"
  subtype:  womankind  women as distinguished from men
  subtype:  chosen_people  any people believing themselves to be chosen by God
     instance:  Hebrews__Israelites

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