person individual someone somebody mortal soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
solitary vireo Vireo solitarius | of eastern North America having a bluish-grey head and mostly green body |
person | a human body (usually including the clothing), a weapon was hidden on his person |
person | a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party, stop talking about yourself in the third person |
first person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur |
second person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur |
third person | pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur |
soliton soliton wave solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively, old people, there were at least people in the audience |
business people businesspeople | people who transact business (especially business executives) |
country people countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
folk folks common people | people in general (often used in the plural), they're just country folk, folks around here drink moonshine, the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next |
free free people | people who are free, the home of the free and the brave |
color colour people of color people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
people | members of a family line, his people have been farmers for generations, are your people still alive? |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization MKO MEK People's Mujahidin of Iran | a terrorist organization formed in the s by children of Iranian merchants, sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism, following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah |
New People's Army NPA | a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government, uses hit squads called Sparrow Units, opposes United States military presence in the Philippines |
People against Gangsterism and Drugs PAGAD | a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in to fight drug lords, evolved into a vigilante group with anti-western views closely allied with Qibla, is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism |
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States, attacks Turkish security and military officials |
Revolutionary People's Struggle ELA | an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from to , a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States |
citizenry people | the body of citizens of a state or country, the Spanish people |
poor people poor | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group), the urban poor need assistance |
rich people rich | people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group), only the very rich benefit from this legislation |
multitude masses mass hoi polloi people the great unwashed | the common people generally, separate the warriors from the mass, power to the people |
People's Party Populist Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads |
flower people hippies hipsters | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the s, advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs, favored acid rock and progressive rock music |
ruling class people in power | the class of people exerting power or authority |
unemployed people unemployed | people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group), the long-term unemployed need assistance |
chosen people | any people believing themselves to be chosen by God |
China People's Republic of China mainland China Communist China Red China PRC Cathay | a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia, the most populous country in the world |
Bangladesh People's Republic of Bangladesh Bangla Desh East Pakistan | a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south, formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan, it achieved independence in |
North Korea Democratic People's Republic of Korea D.P.R.K. DPRK | a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, established in |
Laos Lao People's Democratic Republic | a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia, achieved independence from France in |
Libya Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean, consists almost entirely of desert, a major exporter of petroleum |
Mongolia Mongolian People's Republic Outer Mongolia | a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia |
anomaly unusual person | a person who is unusual |
color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue |
commoner common man common person | a person who holds no title |
female female person | a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies |
innocent inexperienced person | a person who lacks knowledge of evil |
juvenile juvenile person | a young person, not fully developed |
male male person | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies |
nonreligious person | a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity |
primitive primitive person | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization |
religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity |
unfortunate unfortunate person | a person who suffers misfortune |
unwelcome person persona non grata | a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome |
unpleasant person disagreeable person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |