peoples

nounhuman beings

Antonyms for peoples

Word Origin & History

late 13c., "humans, persons in general," from Anglo-French people, Old French peupel "people, population, crowd; mankind, humanity," from Latin populus "a people, nation; body of citizens; a multitude, crowd, throng," of unknown origin, possibly from Etruscan. The Latin word also is the source of Spanish pueblo, Italian popolo. In English, it displaced native folk.

Meaning "body of persons comprising a community" first recorded late 13c. in Anglo-French; meaning "common people, masses" (as distinguished from the nobility) first recorded c.1300 in Anglo-French. Meaning "one's own tribe, group, etc." is from late 14c. The word was adopted after c.1920 by Communist totalitarian states to give a spurious sense of populism to their governments. Legal phrase The People vs., in U.S. cases of prosecution under certain laws, dates from 1801. People of the Book "those whose religion entails adherence to a book of divine revelation (1834) translates Arabic Ahl al-Kitab.

Example Sentences forpeoples

By these rules of conduct, we hope to be known to all peoples.

Yet each of these peoples has a history as noble as that of which the rose and the lion are the emblems.

They tella me much other peoples no can understand hims too.

In a second room were to be found the histories of all the peoples on earth.

Unfortunately the peoples imitated the bad as well as the good.

Their work as colonists in teaching other peoples to live, and think and act as they did.

There are many words in these languages borrowed from other peoples.

It is hard to condense the social habits of peoples into a few dozen pages.

In which of these countries did the peoples become much like the Romans?

Relations between the two peoples have been strained before.