PEOPLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peoples mean? 

• PEOPLES (noun)
  The noun PEOPLES has 1 sense:

1. the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group

  Familiarity information: PEOPLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEOPLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the indigenous peoples of Australia

Hypernyms ("peoples" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

Biochemical analysis of human remains has become a key feature in our understanding of past peoples.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Japan..

(Japanese, NCI Thesaurus)

They said supplementing peoples’ diets with vitamin A may be a powerful tool for preventing TB.

(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Philippine Islands.

(Filipino, NCI Thesaurus)

Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The branch of psychology concerned with similarities or differences in the behavior of different animal species or of different races or peoples.

(Comparative Psychology, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

We want to increase communication, information, young peoples' education...

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii.

(Native Hawaiian, NCI Thesaurus)

These findings imply that the first peoples were highly skilled at moving rapidly across an utterly unfamiliar and empty landscape.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

The night parrot is sacred to First Nation peoples, and experts say Australia now has a second chance to save a bird that was once thought to have died out.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)