Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds , it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

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*(Bible), (w) xii. 1

*:so great a cloud of witnesses

An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

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The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

(figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd , passage=The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.}}

(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.

A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

Noun

; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

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*ca. 1607: XXII people was in this parrish drownd. (Plaque recording the )

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*, chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people . From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people' do send to other ' people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
  Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}

(plural peoples ) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; community.

A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

*1611, (Old Testament), , 2 (w) 8:15:

*:And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people .[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Kjv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]

*1952, (Old Testament), (Revised Standard Version) , Thomas Nelson & Sons, (w) 1:3:

*:The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.

One's colleagues or employees.

*2001 , Vince Flynn, Transfer of Power , p.250:

*:Kennedy looked down at Flood's desk and thought about the possibilities. "Can you locate him?" "I already have my people checking on all [it]."

*2008 , Fern Michaels, Hokus Pokus? , p.184:

*:Can I have one of my people' get back to your ' people , Mr. President?" She tried to slam the phone back into the base and failed.

A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

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The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about