HI. I'm doing a crowd scene, and need some words for "people"
"Folks" is too, well, folksy; I've used "crowd," "community," "residents" and so on.
Any suggestions would be welcome!
thanks
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A good first step is this site.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
for example here are some;
bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, commonality, common people, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi*, horde, humanity, humankind, human race, humans, inhabitants, John/Jane Q. Public, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file*, riffraff*, society, tribe
Here are more
canaille, citizens, clan, commonality, commonalty, commoners, community, demos, electorate, family, folk, folks, hoi polloi, homo sapiens, humanity, inhabit, inhabitants, kin, kindred, laity, mankind, masses, men, menagerie, multitude, nation, pandemia, person, persons, plebeian, plebeians, plebs, populace, populate, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, ragtag, rank and file, relations, relatives, riffraff, society, stock, throng, tribe, women