| anglais > français | |
| people | |
| 1. n. Peuple. (usage) Le verbe se met au pluriel. | |
| The native people of Greenland. | |
| Le peuple autochtone du Groenland. | |
| The native peoples of the Americas. | |
| Les peuples autochtones de l'Amérique. | |
| Les peuples ne devraient pas avoir peur de leurs gouvernements. Les gouvernements devraient avoir peur du peuple. | |
| 2. n. Peuplade. | |
| 3. n. Pluriel de person. Gens. | |
| The people in the room. | |
| Les gens dans la chambre. | |
| 4. v. Peupler. | |
| « Je pense », m'hasardai-je finalement, « qu'il est possible que certains membres de cette race peuplant cet ancien continent dont nous savons qu'il existait ici dans le Pacifique, aient survécu. » | |
| anglais > anglais | |
| people | |
| 1. n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. |  |
| Why do so many people commit suicide? |  |
| 2. n. Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community. |  |
| 3. n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. |  |
| 4. n. One's colleagues or employees. |  |
| 5. n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family. |  |
| My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War. |  |
| 6. n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens. |  |
| 7. n. plural of person. |  |
| 8. v. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. |  |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated. |  |
| 10. v. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate. |  |
| français > anglais | |
| gens | |
| 1. n. set of people |  |
| Ces gens-là ont toujours été sympas avec moi. - Those people have always been kind to me. |  |
| Je n’aime pas les gens qui se prennent pour le nombril du monde. - I don't like people who put themselves in the middle of the world. |  |