dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/peo_MW.json

{
  "People's Republic of China":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "\u2014 see china":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184907",
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "peon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as":[],
      ": infantryman":[],
      ": orderly":[],
      ": a member of the landless laboring class in Spanish America":[],
      ": a person held in compulsory servitude to a master for the working out of an indebtedness":[],
      ": drudge , menial":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113-\u02cc\u00e4n",
      "British also \u02c8py\u00fcn for sense 1",
      "-\u0259n",
      "also p\u0101-\u02c8\u014dn for sense 2"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "dogsbody",
      "drone",
      "drudge",
      "drudger",
      "fag",
      "foot soldier",
      "grub",
      "grubber",
      "grunt",
      "laborer",
      "plugger",
      "slave",
      "slogger",
      "toiler",
      "worker"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "\u201cThose rich politicians don't care about peons like us,\u201d she complained.",
      "the company had plenty of low-paying positions for people who were content to be peons all their lives",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The peon brought mixed tea in small, crudely made cups, with a rose design, and also a little plate of biscuits. \u2014 Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker , 31 Aug. 2021",
      "But the truth is that Taiwan, one of Asia\u2019s most vibrant and boisterous democracies, is a terrible example to cite as a cultural other populated by submissive peons . \u2014 Andrew Leonard, Wired , 18 Mar. 2020",
      "Battling the game's wimpy peons could've been more fun if Respawn had been more generous with Force powers or the meter's recharge. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 14 Nov. 2019",
      "Combat has Souls, not soul Then there's combat, which only comes in two flavors: wimpy peons , or Dark Souls-caliber death traps. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 14 Nov. 2019",
      "Why did Respawn implement this when roughly 80% of J:FO's combat is through annoying waves of simple peons ",
      "The event will celebrate the traditions of Pala with demonstrations, including bird songs, shinny games, peon and bow and arrow making. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Aug. 2019",
      "Why not a single-player (or co-op) crush-the- peons frenzy mode",
      "Rod Steiger and James Coburn team as a pair of revolutionaries with Steiger unfortunately cast as a Mexican peon and Coburn as a visiting Irish bomb-thrower. \u2014 J. Hoberman, New York Times , 27 Apr. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Portuguese pe\u00e3o & French pion , from Medieval Latin pedon-, pedo foot soldier \u2014 more at pawn":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143841"
  },
  "peonize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to reduce to the status of a peon":[
        "peonized farm labor",
        "\u2014 Atlantic"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccn\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132314",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "peony":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of a genus ( Paeonia of the family Paeoniaceae) of chiefly Eurasian plants with large often double flowers":[],
      ": the flower of a peony":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Finishing it all off were as-big-as-your-hand peony blooms from Bridgehampton Florist. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 20 June 2022",
      "Hydrate dry under-eyes with this soothing cream that contains silk proteins to strengthen and protect the delicate under-eye area, plus Japanese white peony to lock in moisture. \u2014 Melody Leibner, Harper's BAZAAR , 17 June 2022",
      "The heart of the fragrance is a blend of four flowers: rose and peony , wild Jasmine for body, and lily of the valley. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 6 June 2022",
      "The formula, which comes in 10 shades, features bamboo stem extract to reduce shine, passionfruit leaf extract for a smoothing effect, and Chinese peony to minimize pore appearance, so skin is matte and smooth all day long. \u2014 Angela Trakoshis, Allure , 2 June 2022",
      "The beauty of the estate\u2019s setting is alluring in its own right, especially during spring, with Winterthur\u2019s celebrated azalea woods and peony garden in bloom. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
      "Itoh peonies \u2014 hybrids from a tree peony bred with an herbaceous peony , created by Japanese horticulturist Dr. Toichi Itoh \u2014 are sprinkled throughout. \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 26 May 2022",
      "Flavors like Raspberry, Mint and White peony tea, Peach with hibiscus and Jasmine green tea, Strawberry Lavender Rosemary Tulsi and Apple, Lemon Cayenne Yerba mat\u00e9. \u2014 Valentina Di Donato, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "Guiducci was dressed in a velvet jacket finished with a fresh white peony and his co-host Nnadi shimmered in a wore faux snakeskin jacket. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 1 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English piony , from Anglo-French peonie, pioin\u00e9 , from Latin paeonia , from Greek pai\u014dnia , from Pai\u014dn Paeon, physician of the gods":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113-\u0259-n\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092409",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "peony red":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a dark to deep red \u2014 compare peony":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072503",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "peony-flowered":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having a flower resembling that of a peony":[
        "a peony-flowering camellia"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021645",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "peony-flowered dahlia":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of numerous showy cultivated dahlias having open-centered flowers with not more than four rows of functional ray flowers and with smaller curled or twisted ray flowers around the disk":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022030",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "people":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest":[],
      ": human beings , persons":[
        "\u2014 often used in compounds instead of persons sales people \u2014 often used attributively people skills"
      ],
      ": the members of a family or kinship":[],
      ": the mass of a community as distinguished from a special class":[
        "disputes between the people and the nobles",
        "\u2014 often used by Communists to distinguish Communists from other people"
      ],
      ": a body of persons that are united by a common culture, tradition, or sense of kinship, that typically have common language, institutions, and beliefs, and that often constitute a politically organized group":[],
      ": lower animals usually of a specified kind or situation":[],
      ": the body of enfranchised citizens of a state":[],
      ": to supply or fill with people":[],
      ": to dwell in : inhabit":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113-p\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "colonize",
      "populate",
      "settle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "depopulate",
      "unpeople"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "People can be really cruel sometimes.",
      "People think the coach should be fired.",
      "She tends to annoy people .",
      "People say it's impossible, but I'm still going to try.",
      "a book for young people",
      "a people who migrated across the Bering Strait",
      "the native peoples of Mexico",
      "Verb",
      "a science-fiction novel about a mission to people Mars",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Even before the onset of Covid-19, there were legions of people with serious illnesses in America. \u2014 John Mulder, STAT , 3 July 2022",
      "Caballero also had trouble finding work and occasionally helped out at the family eatery in Las Vegas, an agricultural and mining town of 26,000 people . \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2022",
      "Only 9% of young people now show a propensity to serve, according to Defense Department polling data shared with ABC News. \u2014 Matt Seyler, ABC News , 2 July 2022",
      "Towns and cities lose a lot of character, and it\u2019s a quality of life issue for a lot of these people . \u2014 Christian Red, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "King Leopold II, whose name and image are omnipresent in Brussels, reigned over the deaths of millions of Congolese people during a rule that was notably cruel even for the time. \u2014 Amy Cheng, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
      "About 6 of every 10 people in the program are Nicaraguans. \u2014 Jessica Gresko And Elliot Spagat, Chron , 1 July 2022",
      "In the city's Tsim Sha Tsui district, just across the water from where the formal handover anniversary ceremonies were held, a group of about 30 people gathered to hold up the Chinese national flag and a patriotic banner. \u2014 Nectar Gan, Simone Mccarthy And Kathleen Magramo, CNN , 1 July 2022",
      "But for millions of young people across the country, doctor\u2019s visits are prohibitively expensive. \u2014 Humyra Ali, ELLE , 1 July 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Given his years dancing alongside them as a New York City Ballet member, choreographer Justin Peck knows the men and women who people his art especially well. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "The Copenhagen Trilogy, by contrast, is fastidiously unjudgmental toward those who people it, including its author, though an autobiographical account is an ideal vehicle of complaint. \u2014 Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books , 9 Mar. 2021",
      "Protests have mostly been peopled by the young, those on college campuses and those who can take a day off to vent without bearing much consequence. \u2014 Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com , 2 June 2020",
      "In Maricopa County, 196 peopled are thought to have died from heat exposure last summer, up from 182 the year before. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2020",
      "The upper part of the valley is well peopled , and many of the hills are cultivated high up. \u2014 Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2020",
      "Inside, the small, low-ceilinged rooms are peopled with pilgrims. \u2014 Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker , 29 Jan. 2020",
      "Most of the floors had at least a few offices with the lights on, at least some of them peopled with executives trying to figure out what to do now. \u2014 Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com , 20 Mar. 2020",
      "Both writers invented a place and, in novel after novel, peopled it with the same characters. \u2014 Edmund White, Harper's magazine , 6 Jan. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English peple , from Anglo-French pople, peple, peuple , from Latin populus":"Noun",
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French popler, poeplier , from pople":"Verb"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144059"
  },
  "people carrier":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small van : minivan":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174407",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "people's bank":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of various chiefly European cooperative financial institutions (as a credit union)":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161915",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "people's party":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a political party representing or claiming to represent the great majority of the inhabitants of a territorial unit (as a nation) as opposed to a particular class or group":[
        "attempted to transform themselves from a class party into a people's party",
        "the Austrian People's Party \u2026 represents farmers, industrialists, and merchants, as well as some labor and many white-collar workers",
        "\u2014 Hans Kohn"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082835",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "people's republic":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a republic usually organized and controlled by a national Communist or Socialist party":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1918, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200436",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "peopledom":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a democratic rule":[],
      ": an ancient Grecian community or province":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125631",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "people mover":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of various rapid-transit systems (as of moving sidewalks or automated driverless cars) for shuttling people":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "The airport has a people mover to bring passengers to the far terminals.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This led into the two-thousands, when the subway became so positive as to become, once again, almost a neutral people mover , neither Dante\u2019s Inferno nor a klutzy rom-com set, and just a way of getting from place to place. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "The project to update and expand the people mover began in 2015, and the train shut down completely in January 2019. \u2014 Sarah Freishtat, chicagotribune.com , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Aside from the engineering challenges of creating a people mover system that is both elevated and underground, the region faces an even more daunting task \u2014 raising roughly $4 billion to finance it. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Void of pomp and circumstance, the Niro EV is simply a people mover powered by electricity. \u2014 Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "Dubbed San Diego\u2019s Grand Central Station, the future airport transit hub would become the region\u2019s primary transportation center, connecting all rail and bus lines with a people mover to the airport. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Aug. 2021",
      "Dubbed San Diego\u2019s Grand Central Station, the future airport transit hub would become the region\u2019s primary transportation center, connecting all rail and bus lines with a people mover to the airport. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Aug. 2021",
      "Dubbed San Diego\u2019s Grand Central Station, the future airport transit hub would become the region\u2019s primary transportation center, connecting all rail and bus lines with a people mover to the airport. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Aug. 2021",
      "Dubbed San Diego\u2019s Grand Central Station, the future airport transit hub would become the region\u2019s primary transportation center, connecting all rail and bus lines with a people mover to the airport. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1968, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145209"
  },
  "people skills":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the ability to work with or talk to other people in an effective and friendly way":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151521"
  },
  "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155722"
  },
  "People of God":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": members of a Russian Christian sect developed in reaction to the extreme ritualism of the official church probably during the 17th century and characterized by disbelief in inspiration of written scriptures and absence of any formal ritual":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161535"
  },
  "people meter":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an electronic device wired to a television set and used to record the channel selections made by individual viewers":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1983, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162411"
  },
  "peoplish":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": popular sense 4":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113p(\u0259)lish"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from people entry 1 + -ish":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170502"
  },
  "people person":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": someone who enjoys being with or talking to other people":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171622"
  },
  "people pleaser":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1550, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-181939"
  },
  "Peoria":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "town on the northwestern edge of Phoenix in southwest central Arizona population 154,065":[],
      "city on the Illinois River in north central Illinois population 115,007":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "p\u0113-\u02c8\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185741"
  },
  "people-king":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a people as sovereign":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "translation of French peuple-roi , translation of Latin populus rex":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194547"
  },
  "peoplet":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a people small in numbers or very local in distribution":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113pl\u0259\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "people + -et":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201525"
  },
  "peopler":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that peoples : settler , inhabitant":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-p(\u0259)l\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211729"
  },
  "peonage":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt":[],
      ": a system of convict labor by which convicts are leased to contractors":[],
      ": the condition of a peon":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113-\u0259-nij"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Labor trafficking follows the same definition, except its purpose is subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage , debt bondage, or slavery. \u2014 Celina Tebor, USA TODAY , 12 Jan. 2022",
      "Sometimes, exile was self-inflicted when people fled their homes before they could be sold off to debt peonage . \u2014 Kristin Collier, Longreads , 1 Dec. 2021",
      "Amendment prohibitions against peonage and involuntary servitude. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 14 Apr. 2021",
      "Among these players are the approximately 96% who will not go pro, and for whom a college athletic scholarship, where they are expected to subordinate education to athletic performance, is more akin to peonage . \u2014 Time , 30 Mar. 2021",
      "By now, so much online territory has been seized by our e-overlords that the rest of us have been reduced to e- peonage . \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 8 Mar. 2021",
      "All this on-screen peonage feels rather academic given the tyranny of real-life lockdown. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 15 Jan. 2021",
      "In parts of southern Mexico, such as Yucat\u00e1n and Chiapas, debt peonage tied laborers to plantations as effectively as violence. \u2014 Alice Baumgartner, The New Yorker , 19 Nov. 2020",
      "The Facebook post references peonage not ending until after World War II began, around 1940. \u2014 Ashley Mott, USA TODAY , 8 July 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-230445"
  },
  "peopleize":{
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": popularize":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-p\u0259\u02ccl\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014207"
  },
  "peonidin":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an anthocyanidin obtained by hydrolysis of peonin usually in the form of its reddish brown chloride C 16 H 13 ClO 6 : a monomethyl ether of cyanidin":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "p\u0113\u02c8\u00e4n\u0259d\u0259\u0307n"
    ],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "peon- (in peonin ) + -id + -in":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105759"
  },
  "People of the Book":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": kitabis":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171931"
  },
  "peoples":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest":[],
      ": human beings , persons":[
        "\u2014 often used in compounds instead of persons sales people \u2014 often used attributively people skills"
      ],
      ": the members of a family or kinship":[],
      ": the mass of a community as distinguished from a special class":[
        "disputes between the people and the nobles",
        "\u2014 often used by Communists to distinguish Communists from other people"
      ],
      ": a body of persons that are united by a common culture, tradition, or sense of kinship, that typically have common language, institutions, and beliefs, and that often constitute a politically organized group":[],
      ": lower animals usually of a specified kind or situation":[],
      ": the body of enfranchised citizens of a state":[],
      ": to supply or fill with people":[],
      ": to dwell in : inhabit":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113-p\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "colonize",
      "populate",
      "settle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "depopulate",
      "unpeople"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "People can be really cruel sometimes.",
      "People think the coach should be fired.",
      "She tends to annoy people .",
      "People say it's impossible, but I'm still going to try.",
      "a book for young people",
      "a people who migrated across the Bering Strait",
      "the native peoples of Mexico",
      "Verb",
      "a science-fiction novel about a mission to people Mars",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Even before the onset of Covid-19, there were legions of people with serious illnesses in America. \u2014 John Mulder, STAT , 3 July 2022",
      "Caballero also had trouble finding work and occasionally helped out at the family eatery in Las Vegas, an agricultural and mining town of 26,000 people . \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2022",
      "Only 9% of young people now show a propensity to serve, according to Defense Department polling data shared with ABC News. \u2014 Matt Seyler, ABC News , 2 July 2022",
      "Towns and cities lose a lot of character, and it\u2019s a quality of life issue for a lot of these people . \u2014 Christian Red, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "King Leopold II, whose name and image are omnipresent in Brussels, reigned over the deaths of millions of Congolese people during a rule that was notably cruel even for the time. \u2014 Amy Cheng, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
      "About 6 of every 10 people in the program are Nicaraguans. \u2014 Jessica Gresko And Elliot Spagat, Chron , 1 July 2022",
      "In the city's Tsim Sha Tsui district, just across the water from where the formal handover anniversary ceremonies were held, a group of about 30 people gathered to hold up the Chinese national flag and a patriotic banner. \u2014 Nectar Gan, Simone Mccarthy And Kathleen Magramo, CNN , 1 July 2022",
      "But for millions of young people across the country, doctor\u2019s visits are prohibitively expensive. \u2014 Humyra Ali, ELLE , 1 July 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Given his years dancing alongside them as a New York City Ballet member, choreographer Justin Peck knows the men and women who people his art especially well. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "The Copenhagen Trilogy, by contrast, is fastidiously unjudgmental toward those who people it, including its author, though an autobiographical account is an ideal vehicle of complaint. \u2014 Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books , 9 Mar. 2021",
      "Protests have mostly been peopled by the young, those on college campuses and those who can take a day off to vent without bearing much consequence. \u2014 Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com , 2 June 2020",
      "In Maricopa County, 196 peopled are thought to have died from heat exposure last summer, up from 182 the year before. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2020",
      "The upper part of the valley is well peopled , and many of the hills are cultivated high up. \u2014 Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2020",
      "Inside, the small, low-ceilinged rooms are peopled with pilgrims. \u2014 Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker , 29 Jan. 2020",
      "Most of the floors had at least a few offices with the lights on, at least some of them peopled with executives trying to figure out what to do now. \u2014 Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com , 20 Mar. 2020",
      "Both writers invented a place and, in novel after novel, peopled it with the same characters. \u2014 Edmund White, Harper's magazine , 6 Jan. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English peple , from Anglo-French pople, peple, peuple , from Latin populus":"Noun",
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French popler, poeplier , from pople":"Verb"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175911"
  },
  "peoplehood":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of constituting a people":[],
      ": the awareness of the underlying unity that makes the individual a part of a people":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u0113-p\u0259l-\u02cchu\u0307d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "By the time Zelensky came of age, three or four generations of Soviet Jews had experienced their Jewish identity as a hollow thing, nothing but a black mark on a passport and a sense of peoplehood born of exclusion and a second-class status. \u2014 Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "There are five main injuries of slavery that still affect the Black community today including peoplehood and nationhood; education; health; criminal punishment; and wealth and poverty, according to NCOBRA. \u2014 Maya Brown, CNN , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "Others, including many anti-Zionists, refuse to recognize Judaism\u2019s peoplehood dimension altogether, saying Jews should be regarded strictly as members of a religion. \u2014 Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com , 3 Mar. 2021",
      "Secular American Jews, however, have always walked a fine line in their sense of peoplehood . \u2014 Ethan Bronner, The New York Review of Books , 12 Mar. 2020",
      "Yet the connection of Jews to their countries, peoplehood and a distinct land predates the era of rights. \u2014 WSJ , 11 May 2018",
      "Even in Hillel\u2019s time, however, Jewishness had three legs: peoplehood , religion and culture. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 30 Mar. 2018",
      "The organization is rooted in traditional values of justice (tzedek), repairing the world (tikkun olam), acts of loving kindness (gemilut hesed), and Jewish peoplehood (klal yisrael). \u2014 Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com , 16 Feb. 2018",
      "Now, many immigrants from these countries settled among the British colonists; a small step away from a peoplehood of blood. \u2014 Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review , 11 July 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1899, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222713"
  }
}