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.