people vs public

Other hyponyms of people include peoples, age bracket, age group, cohort, ancients, baffled, blind, blood, brave, cautious, timid, business people, businesspeople, community, damned, dead, living, deaf, defeated, discomfited, disabled, handicapped, doomed, lost, enemy, episcopacy, episcopate, common people, folk, folks, free, free people, homebound, enlightened, initiate, uninitiate, developmentally challenged, mentally retarded, retarded, network army, nationality, peanut gallery, pocket, retreated, sick, tradespeople, maimed, wounded, migration, building, class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum, country, land, nation, poor, poor people, rich, rich people, populace, world, population, coevals, contemporaries, generation, lobby, business, clientele, patronage, rank and file, smart money, unconfessed, unemployed, unemployed people, womankind, chosen people, Slavic people.