What is the meaning of people?

noun

• Plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively. (
  • usage: "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
• The body of citizens of a state or country.
  • usage: "the Spanish people"
  • synonyms: citizenry
• Members of a family line.
  • usage: "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive"
• The common people generally.
  • usage: "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
  • synonyms: multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, the great unwashed

verb

• Fill with people.
  • usage: "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"
• Furnish with people.
  • usage: "The plains are sparsely populated"