peoples

NOUN

human beings

Synonyms

STRONGEST

community crowd family folk nation population public society

STRONG

bodies bourgeois cats citizens clan commonality folks heads herd horde humanity humankind humans inhabitants kin masses mob mortals multitude nationality persons plebeians populace proletariat rabble race riffraff tribe

WEAK

John/Jane Q. Public body politic common people general public hoi polloi human race person in the street rank and file

Antonyms

WEAK

animals plants

Example Sentences

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After the deluge, the race of Noah repeoples the empty world, and the history of mankind begins anew in the Orient.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean

When thirty-five years and more have unpeopled her dominion of the slaves of love she repeoples it with slaves of infidelity, and, then with the slaves of the church.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian