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-people

-people is the plural of -person.

Meaning of -person

Suffix

-person (noun-forming suffix, plural -persons or -people)

  1. Someone who is an expert in an area.
    • sportsperson
  2. Someone who is employed or holds a position in an area.
    • spokesperson
  3. Someone who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
    • superperson
  4. (nonstandard) Someone of a particular nationality. (More often, the separate noun "person" is used, e.g. "Norse person".)
    • Norseperson

Questions about -people

What is -people the plural of?
-people is the plural of -person.

Words near -people in the dictionary

  1. -pede
  2. -pedia
  3. -pelag
  4. -pelago
  5. -penia
  6. -people
  7. -peridol
  8. -peridone
  9. -perone
  10. -person
  11. -persons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -people (page history and authors); -person (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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