Word Meanings - PEOPLELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Destitute of people. Poe.
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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. - DESTITUTENESS
Destitution. Ash. - PEOPLED
Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray. - DESTITUTE
1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke. - 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. - PEOPLELESS
Destitute of people. Poe. - DESTITUTELY
In destitution. - PEOPLE'S BANK
A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions. - 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. - OVERPEOPLE
To people too densely.