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".

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Famous quotes containing the word people:

    “In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
    —Robert Runcie (b. 1921)

    “A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “I’m sure I don’t know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn’t like to.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)