Index of English words, starting with "pe"

(1) - Peon (n.) See 2d Pawn.
(2) - Peon (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
(3) - Peon (n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
(4) - Peon (n.) See Poon.

(1) - Peonage (n.) The condition of a peon.

(1) - Peony (n.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.

(1) - People (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
(2) - People (n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
(3) - People (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
(4) - People (n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
(5) - People (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
(6) - People (n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

(1) - Peopler (n.) A settler; an inhabitant.