peple
English edit
Noun edit
peple pl (plural only)
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French pueple and Anglo-Norman people, from Latin populus, from Proto-Italic *poplos.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peple (plural peples)
- people (multiple individuals)
- people (a group or class of individuals)
- subjects (of a ruler), followers (of a doctrine)
- nation, race, stock
- crowd, mass, gathering (of people)
- army, retinue (group of armed people)
- commoners (as opposed to nobility or clergy)
- humankind, humanity; all people
Usage notes edit
- Unlike in modern English, usually treated as a singular.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “pẹ̄ple, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.