Dictionary Entry
Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
In a Sentence
“There were so many people at the restaurant last night.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “peoples”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But how a double headed Vulture Eats,
Brutus and Cassius the Peoples cheats.
But seeing May he varied streight his song,
Read full poem →Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round
world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.
Read full poem →Thou ancient treasure-land, thou modern prize,
New peoples marvel at thy pyramids!
The years roll on, thy sphinx of riddle eyes
Read full poem →MartHa Fintry, born 1828, author of the Else
Series; twenty-two volumes of young peoples’ stories.
Read full poem →At this high hour when the destinies not only
of political parties but of peoples are at stake;
when social unrest is everywhere apparent; when
Read full poem →conditions which it criticises and deplores. (.fp-
plause) The oppressed peoples of the earth will
look to it in vain.
Read full poem →‘a universal dominion of right by such a con-
cert of free peoples as shall bring peace and
safety to all nations and make the world itself
Read full poem →concerned about the soul of things; it may or may not inspire the Fantasy
that peoples with images the interlunar vague. Still, one of these lyrics,
in its smaller way, affects us with a sense of uniqueness, as surely as the
Read full poem →And the sorrow which is France,
And for peoples everywhere
Crying in bondage,