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Definition: A People |
A PeopleNoun1. The people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: A PeopleSynonyms: country (n), land (n), nation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: A People |
| English words defined with "a people": apostle ♦ Basque, Bengali ♦ Chuvash ♦ Druse ♦ Empeople, Eponyme, Eskimo, Esquimau, ethos, Ewe ♦ Gentilitious ♦ Hyperborean ♦ Inuit ♦ Khirghiz, Kirghiz, Kirgiz ♦ Lotophagi ♦ Mahratta, Malay, Malayan, Maratha, Martialize, Misgoverned, myth ♦ nomad ♦ Oriya ♦ Sumerian ♦ Tagalog, Tungusic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "a people": Avim ♦ Caora, consumer attitude, consumer behavior, consumer behaviour, consumers'behavior, consumers'behaviour, Contractions ♦ Ethnobotany ♦ Folk-lore ♦ Gaora ♦ Ivanovitch ♦ John Chinaman ♦ Lapithæ, Latinus, Lotus-eaters ♦ Mouse, Myrmidons of the Law ♦ sauce ♦ user behaviour. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm a people person (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well, sometimes you don't sound like your kidding, you know there's a lot a people here. (Goodfellas; writing credit: Nicholas Pileggi) I'm not really a people person (Justice League; writing credit: Paul Whitehouse) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tap: The Migration of a People and Their Dance (1999) Story of a People (1993) A People Chosen (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | No weapon can defeat a people decided to be free. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mozambique : un pueblo en revolucion = a people in revolution ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Anton Chekhov | The power and salvation of a people lie in its intelligentsia, in the intellectuals who think honestly, who feel, and can work. |
Charles Caleb Colton | Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. |
Dwight David Eisenhower | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. |
Edgar Quinet | It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. |
Edmund Burke | Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. |
| A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. | |
Henry Peter | Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. |
Lord Byron | Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Government is every where antecedent to records, and letters seldom come in amongst a people till a long continuation of civil society has, by other more necessary arts, provided for their safety, ease, and plenty: and then they begin to look after the history of their founders, and search into their original, when they have outlived the memory of it: for it is with commonwealths as with particular persons, they are commonly ignorant of their own births and infancies: and if they know any thing of their original, they are beholden for it, to the accidental records that others have kept of it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This people, surpassed by none in might and glory, esteems itself as a nation, not as a people. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | China | The new government assumed control of a people exhausted by two generations of war and social conflict, and an economy ravaged by high inflation and disrupted transportation links. (references) |
Indigenous People | Japan | The Ainu are a people descended from the first inhabitants of the country. (references) |
Political Rights | Algeria | The Tuaregs, a people of Amazigh origin, do not play an important role in politics, due to their small numbers, estimated in the tens of thousands, and their nomadic existence. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Chuck Hagel | Well, that objective is noble and right, and we should always as this country has always stood for human dignity and human rights. And that is the foundation of who we are as a people and is the foundation of our foreign policy. |
Dennis Miller | If Americans are to grow as a people, they need to think of Martha Stewart not as a conniving bitch but, rather, as a deceitful bastard. |
Rush Limbaugh | Once a people denied freedom their whole life, taste a little freedom, it's over for the dictators. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | With such an organization of such a people the United States have nothing to dread from foreign invasion. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | The great objects of our pursuit as a people are best to be attained by peace, and are entirely consistent with the tranquility and interests of the rest of mankind. |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | To us as a people it has been granted to lay the foundations of our national life in a new continent. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | I, too, am a witness, today testifying in your name to the principles and purposes to which we, as a people, are pledged. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | If ever there was a people who sought more than mere abundance, it is our people. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | But as we saw the consequences of what we had done, inevitable remorse and divisive recrimination would scar our spirit as a people. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | One example shines forth of a people uniting to produce abundance and to share the good life fairly and with freedom. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Tonight I want to speak to you about the challenges we all face as a people. |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "a people". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Amalek | N/A | Biblical | A people that licks up |
| Ammon | N/A | Biblical | A people |
| Aniam | N/A | Biblical | A people |
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| Language | Translations for "a people"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 民族史 (history of a people). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | み"ぞくし (history of a people). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aay eoplepay.(various references) | |
Scottish | aiteam (folk, people, persons). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ethnos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bacchidem, dem, demas, demetrio, demetrium, demum. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 10, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | ProV de ton israhl legei olhn thn hmeran exepetasa taV ceiraV mou proV laon apeiqounta kai antilegonta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ad Israhel autem dicit tota die expandi manus meas ad populum non credentem et contradicentem |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ac ymb Israel segð he:"Ealne dæg geræce ic mine handaæt forgiemeleasendum and fæstum folce." m |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But to Israel he seith, Al dai Y streiyte out myn hondis to a puple that bileuede not, but ayen seide me. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And agaynst Israel he sayth: All daye longe have I stretched forth my hondes vnto a people yt beleveth not but speaketh agaynst me. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 10, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Apan mahitungod kang Israel siya nagaingon, "Sa tibuok adlaw ginatuyhad ko ang akong mga kamot ngadto sa mga tawong masupilon ug masinupakon." |
| Croatian | A Izraelu veli: Cio dan pružah ruku narodu nepokornom i buntovnom. |
| Danish | Men om Israel siger han: "Den hele Dag udstrakte jeg mine Hænder imod et ulydigt og genstridigt Folk." |
| Dutch | Maar tegen Israel zegt Hij: Den gehelen dag heb Ik Mijn handen uitgestrekt tot een ongehoorzaam en tegensprekend volk. |
| Finnish | Mutta Israelista hän sanoo: "Koko päivän minä olen ojentanut käsiäni tottelematonta ja uppiniskaista kansaa kohden". |
| French | Mais au sujet d`Israël, il dit: J`ai tendu mes mains tout le jour vers un peuple rebelle Et contredisant. |
| German | Zu Israel aber spricht er: "Den ganzen Tag habe ich meine Hände ausgestreckt zu dem Volk, das sich nicht sagen läßt und widerspricht." |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi mengenai bangsa Israel Yesaya berkata, "Beginilah kata Allah, 'Sepanjang hari Aku mengulurkan tangan-Ku kepada suatu bangsa yang keras kepala dan tidak taat.'" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi firmannya kepada bani Israel: Bahwa berhari-hari Aku mengulurkan tangan-Ku kepada kaum yang ingkar dan yang babil." |
| Italian | mentre di Israele dice: Tutto il giorno ho steso le mani verso un popolo disobbediente e ribelle! |
| Maori | Ko tana kupu ia mo Iharaira, Pau noa te ra i totoro atu ai oku ringa ki te iwi tutu, ki te iwi whakahawea. |
| Norwegian | men om Israel sier han: Hele dagen rakte jeg mine hender ut til et ulydig og gjenstridig folk. |
| Portuguese | Quanto a Israel, porém, diz: Todo o dia estendi as minhas mãos a um povo rebelde e contradizente. |
| Rumanian | Pe cknd, despre Israel zice: ,Toatq ziua Mi-am kntins mknile spre un norod rqzvrqtit wi kmpotrivitor la vorbq.` |
| Shuar | Tura Israer-shuaran áujmatuk Tímiayi: "Tuke iniaitsuk Winin winiarti tusan nu shuaran Untsúajai. Tura nakitrurar umirtuiniatsui." |
| Spanish | Pero acerca de Israel dice: Todo el día extendí mis manos a un pueblo desobediente y rebelde. |
| Swahili | Lakini kuhusu Israeli anasema: "Mchana kutwa niliwanyoshea mikono yangu watu waasi na wasiotii." |
| Swedish | Men om Israel säger han: "Hela dagen har jag uträckt mina händer till ett ohörsamt och gensträvigt folk." |
| Uma | Hiaa' ane to Israel-hana, Alata'ala mpo'uli' hewa toi: "Ha'eoa kutonu pale-ku doko' mpodoa-ra, tapi' bate mesapuaka-ra pai' motu'a oa' nono-ra." |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-o-p-p" | |
-1 letter: people. | |
-2 letters: appel, apple, elope, pepla. | |
-3 letters: alee, aloe, leap, lope, olea, opal, pale, palp, peal, peel, peep, pele, pepo, plea, plop, pole, pope. | |
-4 letters: ale, alp, ape, eel, lap, lea, lee, lop, ole, ope, pal, pap, pea, pee, pep, pol, pop. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, el, la, lo, oe, op, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-o-p-p" | |
+2 letters: laypeople. | |
+3 letters: apoplexies, depopulate, fleahopper, leafhopper, overlapped, repopulate. | |
+4 letters: copperplate, depopulated, depopulates, fleahoppers, leafhoppers, lepidoptera, plecopteran, repopulated, repopulates, salespeople. | |
+5 letters: anchorpeople, copperplates, craftspeople, doppelganger, lepidopteran, leptocephali, overpopulate, paleographer, perceptional, plecopterans, preceptorial, repopularize, superposable, tradespeople. | |
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