People

People

A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as in an ethnic group or nation. Collectively, for example, Jews are known as "the Jewish people", European Gypsies comprise the bulk of "the Romani people", and Palestinian Arabs have started to be called "the Palestinian people".

Read more about People.

Famous quotes containing the word people:

    “It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Three people equal one tiger.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “I hadn’t an illusion in my handbag
    About the people being better there
    Than those I left behind. I thought they weren’t.
    I thought they couldn’t be. And yet they were.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)