Word Meanings - PENINSULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.

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• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• PEOPLER
  A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
• PENINSULATE
  To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.
• PENINSULA
  A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.
• PEOPLELESS
  Destitute of people. Poe.
• PEOPLE'S BANK
  A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.
• PENINSULAR
  Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.
• PENINSULA STATE
  Florida; -- a nickname.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
• DEPEOPLE
  To depopulate.
• REPEOPLE
  To people anew.
• UNDERPEOPLED
  Not fully peopled.
• TOWNSPEOPLE
  The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
• DISPEOPLER
  One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator. Gay.
• UNPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Shak.
• EMPEOPLE
  To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people. We now know 't is very well empeopled. Sir T. Browne.