Dictionary entry

People

Pronunciation: /ˈpiːp(ə)l/

Pronunciation

/ˈpiːp(ə)l/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) လူထု (v) လူများနေထိုင်လျက်ရှိ

Definition

people /'pi:pl/ n ၁။ [pl v ] ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ား။ လူေတြ။ Were there many people at the party? ❍ streets crowded with people ❍ He meets a lot of famous people in his job. ❍ Many old people live alone. ၂။ [pl v ] လူ။ လူေတြ။ Some people are very inquisitive. ❍ Most people wouldn't agree with you. ❍ People drive very badly in this country. ❍ This kind of social problem worries people. ❍ GENDER 1 ၃။ (က) [C] လူမ်ဳိး။ the English-speaking peoples ❍ The Spartans were a warlike people. (ခ) [pl v ] (ၿမိဳ႕၊ နယ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံ)သား။ the people (ie inhabitants) of London ❍ the British/ French/ Russian people. ၄။ the people [pl v ] ျပည္သူ။ လူထု။ The President no longer has the support of the people. ၅။ the people [pl v ] သာမန္ျပည္သူ။ အမ်ားျပည္သူ။ the common people ❍ a man of the people (eg a politician who is popular with ordinary people). ၆။ [pl v ] ဘက္ေတာ္သား။ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္း။ ပရိသတ္။ လူ။ His people worked hard to get him elected. ၇။ [pl v ] ( infml ) လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္။ လူ။ I'll have to talk to my people and get back to you about the contract. ၈။ [pl v ] ( infml ) အမ်ဳိး။ ေဆြမ်ဳိး။ She's spending Christmas with her people. ၉။ [pl v ] လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ရပ္ ႏွင့္ သက္ဆိုင္ေသာ သူမ်ား။ အေျခခံတစ္ရပ္ရပ္အရ ေပါင္း႐ံုး ရည္ၫႊန္းႏိုင္သူမ်ား။ …သည္။ … သမား။ Arts people get a fair amount of government support. See also BOAT PEOPLE v ~ sth (with sth) (လူမ်ား) ေနထိုင္လ်က္ရိွသည္၊ ျဖင့္ ျပည့္ႏွက္ ေနသည္။ a village peopled by hardy seafolk ❍ He believes the world is peopled with idiots. ❏ people (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones [ IDM ] ( saying ) ကိုယ့္မွာ အျပစ္ရိွ လ်က္ အျခားသူမ်ားကို အျပစ္မဆိုလင့္။ ကိုယ့္မ်က္ေခ်း ကိုယ္မျမင္ဘဲ သူမ်ားမ်က္ေခ်းထူ သည္ဟု မေဝဖန္သင့္။ သူခိုးကလူ လူဟစ္မေနပါနဲ႔။

Examples

  1. Young/old people
  2. A group/crowd of people
  3. Thousands of people marched in protest.
  4. The accident left three people dead and many injured.
  5. People were running everywhere.
  6. [many/few/some people] : Many people here would agree with you.
  7. People tend to think that doctors know everything.
  8. Military/religious/financial people
  9. Scientifically-minded people
  10. On this issue
  11. government has failed to listen to the people.
  12. [a man/woman of the people] : Many thought the governor was a man of the people (=a leader who cares about ordinary people).
  13. The Japanese/Spanish/German people
  14. They are a proud
  15. dignified people.
  16. Over thousands of years
  17. peoples from central Asia came to settle here.
  18. The case of the people versus the Jameson Financial Company
  19. Okay
  20. people. Let’s not panic.