History: People Now And Then

People is a plurality of human beings or other beings possessing enough qualities constituting personhood. It has two usages:
• as the plural of person (in addition to the rarer plural, "persons") or a group of people (grammatically, a suppletive plural and collective noun; e.g. "some people are..."), or otherwise for groups with particular unifying traits, qualities, properties, or characteristics (e.g. the people of Spain, or the people of the Plains).
• as a singular for an indefinite ethnic group or nation (e.g. "a people is...")