Meaning

2 senses
  1. (derogatory, plural, plural only)Any outsiders of a clique.

  2. (plural, plural only)Members of a particular group, collectively.

    Drawing the rhetorical distinction between the "people like yourselves" at the overwhelmingly white rally and "those people" protesting was, needless to say, a provocative framing of the issue.

    The country would be much better off, in his opinion, if "those people" (the term he used in his speech) just went somewhere and shut up.

Forms

plural: those peoples
Singularthose people
Pluralthose peoples

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedyou people

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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