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- English Word Peon Definition A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
- English Word Peon Definition See 2d Pawn.
- English Word Peonage Definition The condition of a peon.
- English Word Peonies Definition of Peony
- English Word Peonism Definition Same as Peonage.
- English Word Peony Definition A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
- English Word People Definition The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
- English Word People Definition Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
- English Word People Definition The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
- English Word People Definition One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
- English Word People Definition One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
- English Word People Definition To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
- English Word Peopled Definition of People
- English Word Peopled Definition Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.
- English Word Peopleless Definition Destitute of people.
- English Word Peopler Definition A settler; an inhabitant.
- English Word Peopling Definition of People
- English Word Peoplish Definition Vulgar.
- English Word Peorias Definition An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.
- English Word Pepastic Definition Same as Maturative.