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PEOPLE , a collective See also: term for persons in general, especially as forming the See also: body of persons in a community or nation, the " folk " (the O.E. and Teut. word, cf
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See also: Volk)
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The earlier forms of the word were peple, See also: poe See also: pie, puple, &c.; the See also: present See also: form is found as early as the 15th century, but was not established till the beginning of the 16th
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Old French, from which it was adapted, had many of these forms as well as the mod
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Fr. peuple
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The See also: Lat. populus is generally taken to be a reduplication from the See also: root ple,—fill, seen in plenus, full; plebs, the See also: commons; Gr. rrMOor, multitude
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