Definition of Peoplehood

1. Noun. The collective sense of being part of a distinct people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Peoplehood

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peoplehood

people-first language
people carrier
people carriers
people mover
people movers
people of color
people of colour
people of size
people people
people person
people pleaser
people pleasers
people skills
peopled
peoplehood (current term)
peoplehoods
peopleless
peopler
peoplers
peoples
peopleware
peopling
peoplish
peorias
pep
pep pill
pep pills

Literary usage of Peoplehood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"The maintenance of enclaves of cultural traditions and heritages, of a unique sense of peoplehood, also has some negative results, especially the dislike of ..."

2. The Western and Eastern Questions of Europe by Elihu Burritt (1871)
"We have just learned, and other nations are learning, to number all the inhabitants of the national domain into the grand totality of its peoplehood, ..."

3. Technologies for Understanding and Preventing Substance Abuse and Addiction by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"... Hispanics, and American Indians, develop "a collective identity or sense of peoplehood in opposition to the social identity of white Americans. ..."

4. Rural Politics and the Collapse of Pennsylvania Federalism by Kenneth W. Keller (1982)
"But " If the "Scotch-Irishmen" had a sense of peoplehood, it was not easily distinguishable from the history and experience of the Presbyterian Church. ..."

5. Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars by James E. Hassell (1991)
"Between Two Worlds Complete assimilation of the White émigrés into their host societies would have meant a loss of their sense of Russian "peoplehood. ..."

6. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... as Werner Sollors has demonstrated, stands in a complex relationship to other proximate notions with which it does not fully overlap, like peoplehood, ..."

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