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people
English
Alternative forms
- peeps, peops (slang)
- peple (obsolete)
- pipple (pronunciation spelling)
- ppl, ppl.
Etymology
From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk.
Originally a singular noun (e.g. The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness –2 Samuel 17:29, King James Version, spelling modernized), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times (compare Old English l?ode (“people, men, persons”), plural of Old English l?od (“man, person”)). See also lede, leod.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pi?p?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pip?l/, /?pipl?/, [?p?ip??]
- Rhymes: -i?p?l
- Hyphenation: peo?ple
- Homophone: papal (some dialects)
Noun
people (countable and uncountable, plural peoples)
- Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
- Synonyms: (slang) peeps, lede, leod
- c. 1607, plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods:
- XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
- (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
- Synonyms: collective, community, congregation, folk
- 1966, Dick Tuck, Concession Speech:
- The people have spoken, the bastards.
- A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
- Synonyms: fans, groupies, supporters
- 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Isaiah 1:3:
- The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
- One's colleagues or employees.
- A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
- Synonyms: kin, kith, folks
- The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
- Synonyms: populace, commoners, citizenry
people
- plural of person.
Usage notes
- When used to mean "persons" (meaning 1 above), "people" today takes a plural verb. However, in the past it could take a singular verb.
- Nowadays, "persons" as the plural of "person" is considered highly formal. All major style guides recommend people rather than persons. For example, the Associated Press and the New York Times recommend "people" except in quotations and set phrases. Under the traditional distinction, which Garner says is pedantic, persons describes a finite, known number of individuals, rather than the collective term people. "Persons" is correct in technical and legal contexts.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: piipl
- Pijin: pipol
Translations
See also
- sheeple
Verb
people (third-person singular simple present peoples, present participle peopling, simple past and past participle peopled)
- (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
- 1674, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, Act II, Scene I:
- He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man.
- 1674, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, Act II, Scene I:
- (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
- (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
- a. 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
- […] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]
- a. 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
- (rare, informal) To interact with people; to socialize.
- 2018, Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Darkest Star, Tor Teen (?ISBN), page 149:
- I don't people well.” “Not peopling well is a crap excuse,” I retorted, and started to step around him, but a sudden thought occurred to me.
- 2019, Casey Diam, Love, [8]:
- My head tilted as Calvin said, "Don't worry about him. He just doesn't people well.
- The fuck? I people. Sometimes. With people I know.
- 2020, Teri Anne Stanley, Lucky Chance Cowboy, Sourcebooks, Inc. (?ISBN)
- I don't people well.” He laughed at that. “You do okay,” he assured her.
- 2018, Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Darkest Star, Tor Teen (?ISBN), page 149:
Usage notes
- The informal interaction sense is chiefly used in the negative.
Derived terms
- peopler
Translations
References
- people in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- People on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- People in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Peploe
French
Alternative forms
- pipole
Etymology
Since 2000, named after People, an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.p?l/
Noun
people m or f (plural people)
- (countable) A celebrity, celebrities, famous person(s).
- 2004, Emmanuel Davidenkoff and Didier Hassoux, Luc Ferry: une comédie du pouvoir, 2002–2004 (Luc Ferry: A Comedy of Power, 2002–2004), Hachette, ?ISBN,
- Le novice en politique contre le mammouth « Éducation nationale ». Ça mérite la sympathie. Et puis c’est un people. Les gens aiment et détestent à la fois. Ils sont fascinés. Le bonheur sur papier glacé. Les vacances entre Saint-Trop’, la Martinique et Deauville.
- The political novice against the mammoth "National Education". That merited sympathy. Then, too, he was a celebrity. People loved and hated at the same time. They were fascinated. Happiness on ice paper. Vacations between Saint-Tropez, Martinique, and Deauville.
- Le novice en politique contre le mammouth « Éducation nationale ». Ça mérite la sympathie. Et puis c’est un people. Les gens aiment et détestent à la fois. Ils sont fascinés. Le bonheur sur papier glacé. Les vacances entre Saint-Trop’, la Martinique et Deauville.
- 2008, Martine Delvaux, "L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder" ("Frédéric Beigbeder's L’égoïsme romantique (Romantic Egotism)"), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 95:
- Oscar Dufresne est un people anti-people, un macho impuissant, un intellectuel qui ne dit rien d’intelligent, un faux sadique et un faux masochiste, un anti-autobiographe.
- Oscar Dufresne is a celebrity who is anti-celebrity, a powerless macho man, an intellectual who says nothing intelligent, a fake sadist and a fake masochist, an anti-autobiographer.
- Oscar Dufresne est un people anti-people, un macho impuissant, un intellectuel qui ne dit rien d’intelligent, un faux sadique et un faux masochiste, un anti-autobiographe.
- 2004, Emmanuel Davidenkoff and Didier Hassoux, Luc Ferry: une comédie du pouvoir, 2002–2004 (Luc Ferry: A Comedy of Power, 2002–2004), Hachette, ?ISBN,
- (uncountable, m) showbusiness, popular media that feature stories on celebrities and famous people (as represented by magazines such as People, (UK) Hello!, (France) Paris Match)
Usage notes
- The French noun people is frequently italicized as a loanword, as in the quotations above.
Synonyms
- (a celebrity): célébrité, personne connue, personnalité, personnage public
Derived terms
- pipolisation
Middle English
Noun
people
- Alternative form of peple
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saw
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sô, IPA(key): /s??/
- Homophones: (in some non-rhotic accents): soar, sore
- Rhymes: -??
- (US) enPR: sô, IPA(key): /s?/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: sä, IPA(key): /s??/
- (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see') IPA(key): /s??l/
Etymology 1
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sag? (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin sec? (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
Noun
saw (plural saws)
- A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
- A musical saw.
- A sawtooth wave.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: sa
Translations
Verb
saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)
- (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
- They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
- (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
- (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
- The timber saws smoothly.
- (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
- to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
- to saw shingles; to saw out a panel
Derived terms
- saw gourds
- saw wood
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?, *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??-, from *sek?- (“to follow”). Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.
Noun
saw (plural saws)
- (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
- And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid […].
- And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded […].
- And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid […].
- A saying or proverb.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:saying
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II Scene VII, lines 152-5.
- And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.
- 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 8.
- At his crowning […] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'
- 2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed.
- There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.
- (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.
- (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
- c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous
- All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
- c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous
- (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
- [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
Derived terms
- soothsaw
- withsaw
Translations
Etymology 3
Verb
saw
- simple past tense of see
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
Interjection
saw
- (slang) What's up (either as a greeting or actual question).
Anagrams
- ASW, AWS, Was, aws, was
Atong (India)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?aw/
Adjective
saw (Bengali script ???)
- rotten
Khasi
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *sa?w, an innovation of the Khasian branch. Cognate with Pnar soo.
Numeral
saw
- four
Middle English
Noun
saw
- saw
- 1387', Ranulf Higden, John of Trevisa (translator), Polychronicon
- Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
- The more common opinion is that Remus was slain for he lept over the new walls of Rome.
- Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
- 1387', Ranulf Higden, John of Trevisa (translator), Polychronicon
Northern Kurdish
Noun
saw ?
- terror
- horror
Scots
Pronunciation
- (Doric and most Southern Scots dialects) IPA(key): /sa/
- (Central and some Southern Scots dialects) IPA(key): /s?/
Etymology 1
Verb
saw
- (South Scots) simple past tense of sei
- (Northern and Central) simple past tense of see
Etymology 2
Noun
saw (plural saws)
- A salve.
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /?a???/
- Tone numbers: saw1
- Hyphenation: saw
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *s??? (“writing; book”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC ???, “writing; book”). Cognate with Lao ?? (s??), Thai ??? (s???).
Alternative forms
- sw
Noun
saw (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ????, old orthography s??)
- written language; writing; script
- (Chinese) character
- word
- book
- teaching material
- receipt; voucher
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Tai *sa?? (“clear; clean”). Cognate with Thai ?? (s?i), Northern Thai ??, Isan ??, Lao ?? (sai), Lü ?? (?ay), Tai Dam ??, Shan ??? (s?ue), Tai Nüa ??? (sáue), Ahom ???????? (saw) or ???????????? (sawu).
Adjective
saw (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography s??)
- clean
- (of transparent objects, water, etc.) clear
- (of liquids other than water) watery; thin
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from ??”)
Verb
saw (Sawndip forms ???? or ?, old orthography s??)
- to lose
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