plural. Persons collectively, ‘people’; the people subject to a lord or sovereign; one's own people, countrymen.

Chiefly with possessive adjective or genitive. The people of one's own country; = country people, n. 2. Formerly also: the people of a particular…

In plural. Fellow-countrymen, compatriots. Obsolete.

With possessive adjective or genitive. People of one's own country, compatriots. Cf. countryfolk, n. 1. Now rare.

An organization, institution, etc., which is national rather than local or regional. A national championship or competition. Chiefly in plural.