pregnant

pregnant¹, adjective

person n. There will be twelve persons at our table:  individual, human being, human, being, mortal, living soul, soul, living body, body.
◊ Usage Note: In strict usage, people, is used in referring to an indefinite number of individuals and persons where a precise number is specified. Thus, The auditorium seats hundreds of people, but Capacity of the restaurant is limited to 47 persons.
◊ Word origin: Person comes from Latin persona, an actor’s mask or character, an assumed personality. We still use the Latin persona to mean a character in a play, and psychologists still use it to mean a personality assumed by an individual for psychological concealment or defense.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

(people)

people

people n. pl. 1 Will people ever live 200 years?: human beings, humans, mortals, men and women, individuals, human kind, homo sapiens, mankind, humanity. 2 The people of the city want better schools. My people came from Ireland: citizens, citizenry, inhabitants, population, populace; family, ancestors, relatives, kin, kinfolks, Informal folks. 3 A politician must appeal to the people: the public, the common people, the little people, the rank and file, the masses, the multitude, the millions, the man in the street, John Q. Public; commoners, the common run; the lower classes, the lower orders, the working class, the working man, the mob, the rabble, the herd, the crowd, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi.
Ant 3 nobility, aristocracy, gentry, upper classes, blue blood, silk stockings.
Word origin: People comes from Latin pǒpulus, people. (Latin pǒpulus — pronounced with a long o — means “poplar.”)

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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