Hyphenation of people

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word people? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

peo-ple

Definitions of people:

1.	(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively Old people There were at least 200 people in the audience
2.	The body of citizens of a state or country The Spanish people
3.	Members of a family line His people have been farmers for generations Are your people still alive?
4.	The common people generally Separate the warriors from the mass Power to the people
5.	Fill with people Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes
6.	Furnish with people The plains are sparsely populated

Synonyms of people:

noun	group, grouping
noun	citizenry, group, grouping
noun	multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, group, grouping
noun	family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
verb	populate, fill, fill up, make full
verb	dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, populate, domicile, domiciliate, be

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.