people vs dwell

people is a noun but dwell is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
people	Yes	No	Yes	No
dwell	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, dwell is a hypernym of people; that is, dwell is a word with a broader meaning than people:

Other hypernyms of people include inhabit, live, populate.

people (noun)	dwell (noun)
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
the body of citizens of a state or country
members of a family line
the common people generally

people (verb)	dwell (verb)
fill with people	think moodily or anxiously about something
furnish with people	come back to
	be an inhabitant of or reside in
	originate (in)
	exist or be situated within