person
individual
someone
somebody
mortal
soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
| person | a human body (usually including the clothing), a weapon was hidden on his person |
colored hearing
colored audition | a form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| unskilled person | a person who lacks technical training |