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English
Noun
peple pl (plural only)
- Obsolete spelling of people.
Anagrams
Middle English
- peeple, peopill, people, pepil, pepill, pepul, pepull, pepyl, pepyll, peuple, poepil, poeple, puple
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French pueple and Anglo-Norman people, from Latin populus, from Proto-Italic *poplos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpeːpəl/, /ˈpeːplə/, /ˈpiu̯pəl/, /ˈpiu̯plə/
Noun
peple (plural peples)
- people (multiple individuals)
- people (a group or class of individuals)
- subjects (of a ruler), followers (of a doctrine)
- nation, race, stock
- crowd, mass, gathering (of people)
- army, retinue (group of armed people)
- commoners (as opposed to nobility or clergy)
- humankind, humanity; all people
Usage notes
- Unlike in modern English, usually treated as a singular.
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