people
[zone: 1, ipm: 984.5]
Definitions
- all the persons who live in a particular place or belong to a particular country, race, etc.
Examples
- The Emperor had asked the people of France to express approval or disapproval of the move towards liberal institutions.
- Monarchies usually are revered by the people under their power.
- With language that spoke to ordinary people, it said what so many native-born colonists were afraid to say.
- The people of Damascus, too, had offered the keys to Bonaparte.
- But recent polls show that a majority of British people are against giving money to these minor royals.
Collocations
- mind [score: 9.67, freq: 18] (people's minds)
- mass [score: 9.5, freq: 206] (masses of people)
- common [score: 9.45, freq: 292] (common people)
- will [score: 9.45, freq: 11] (people's will)
- England [score: 9.2, freq: 129] (people of England)
- right [score: 9.18, freq: 10] (people's rights)
- ignorant [score: 9.1, freq: 18] (ignorant people)
- representative [score: 8.96, freq: 6] (people's representatives)
- Paris [score: 8.9, freq: 65] (people of Paris)
- States [score: 8.77, freq: 60] (people of the United States)
- French [score: 8.7, freq: 315] (the French people)
- Roman [score: 8.7, freq: 231] (the Roman people)
- majority [score: 8.49, freq: 105] (the majority of people)
- German [score: 8.43, freq: 203] (the German people)
- oppress [score: 8.42, freq: 70] (oppressed people)
- American [score: 8.39, freq: 137] (the American people)
- jealous [score: 8.23, freq: 9] (jealous people)
- conquer [score: 8.15, freq: 71] (conquered people)
- welfare [score: 8.11, freq: 73] (people's welfare)
- free [score: 8.08, freq: 13] (free people)
- English [score: 7.92, freq: 122] (the English people)
- Irish [score: 7.83, freq: 74] (the Irish people)
- poor [score: 7.8, freq: 7] (poor people)
- France [score: 7.78, freq: 61] (people of France)
- Italy [score: 7.77, freq: 32] (people of Italy)
- elect [score: 7.69, freq: 54] (elected by people)
- sensible [score: 7.63, freq: 6] (people sensible of)
- young [score: 7.55, freq: 93] (young people)
- British [score: 7.5, freq: 147] (the British people)
- native [score: 7.49, freq: 70] (native people)
- inhabit [score: 7.44, freq: 45] (inhabited by people)
- Christian [score: 7.31, freq: 56] (Christian people)
- indigenous [score: 7.27, freq: 42] (indigenous people)
- Jewish [score: 7.23, freq: 44] (the Jewish people)
- coloured [score: 7.21, freq: 40] (coloured people)
- colonial [score: 7.14, freq: 55] (colonial people)
- Indian [score: 7.12, freq: 49] (the Indian people)
Thesaurus
- man [score: 0.427, freq: 43782]
- nation [score: 0.417, freq: 15132]
- government [score: 0.349, freq: 28006]
- country [score: 0.341, freq: 27816]
- king [score: 0.337, freq: 26488]
- prince [score: 0.327, freq: 12311]
- person [score: 0.318, freq: 13012]
- state [score: 0.317, freq: 21685]
- army [score: 0.296, freq: 23956]
- power [score: 0.295, freq: 28019]
- emperor [score: 0.295, freq: 13757]
- subject [score: 0.289, freq: 10557]
- soldier [score: 0.285, freq: 8297]
- party [score: 0.284, freq: 11219]
- empire [score: 0.274, freq: 21781]
- France [score: 0.267, freq: 22227]
- city [score: 0.266, freq: 15013]
- officer [score: 0.264, freq: 8934]
- troop [score: 0.264, freq: 13039]
- colony [score: 0.258, freq: 11028]