Hypernyms for "people"
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Achaean
Aeolian
age bracket
age group
ancients
Arcado-Cyprians
audience
baffled
blind
blood
brave
business
business people
businesspeople
cautious
chosen people
class
clientele
coevals
cohort
common people
contemporaries
country
country people
countryfolk
damned
dead
deaf
defeated
developmentally challenged
disabled
discomfited
doomed
Dorian
electorate
enemy
enlightened
episcopacy
episcopate
folk
folks
followers
following
free
free people
generation
governed
handicapped
homebound
initiate
Ionian
laity
land
living
lobby
lost
maimed
mentally retarded
migration
nation
nationality
network army
patronage
peanut gallery
peoples
pocket
poor
poor people
populace
population
public
rank and file
retarded
retreated
rich
rich people
sick
smart money
social class
socio-economic class
stratum
temporalty
timid
tradespeople
unconfessed
unemployed
unemployed people
uninitiate
womankind
world
wounded
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.