Word Meanings - BASQUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

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• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• BISCAYAN
  Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain. -- n.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• PEOPLER
  A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• PEOPLELESS
  Destitute of people. Poe.
• PEOPLE'S BANK
  A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
• DEPEOPLE
  To depopulate.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• REPEOPLE
  To people anew.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• UNDERPEOPLED
  Not fully peopled.
• TOWNSPEOPLE
  The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
• DISPEOPLER
  One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator. Gay.
• UNPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Shak.