unpeople is a plural form of unperson
a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
person noun (people)
unpeople | unpersons
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George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons
the synthetic language "newspeak" in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
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a public figure, especially in a totalitarian country, who, for political ... | a person accorded no recognition or consideration by another or by a ... (24 of 50 words, 2 definitions, pronunciation)
someone who is deliberately ignored in a country's news and official records because the government does not approve of their political views (22 of 47 words, pronunciation)
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a person whose existence is officially denied or ignored (9 of 34 words, 1 usage example, pronunciation)
A person whose existence is systematically ignored or concealed, especially one whose removal from the attention and memory of the public is sought ... (23 of 33 words, pronunciation)
a person whose name or existence is denied or ignored, especially because of a political misdemeanour (16 of 32 words, pronunciation)
an individual who usually for political or ideological reasons is removed completely from recognition or consideration (16 of 28 words, pronunciation)
a person who is completely ignored, as if he or she does not exist; specifically, such a person officially ignored by his or her own government (26 of 28 words, pronunciation)
A human who has been stripped of rights, identity or humanity. (11 of 12 words, 1 usage example)
a citizen or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively ceases to have a record of their existence within a society, from a point of view of traceability, ... (44 of 1000 words, 2 images)
in religion and philosophy, the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being, that which confers individuality and humanity, often considered to be ... (23 of 863 words)
used to refer to a single person when you do not know who they are or when it's not important who they are (23 of 70 words, 5 usage examples, pronunciation)
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somebody or someone (3 of 7 words)
the vital, immaterial, life principle, generally conceived as existing within humans and sometimes within all living things, inanimate objects, and ... (20 of 51 words)
somebody whose existence is not acknowledged officially, especially a public figure whose existence is, for political or ideological reasons, ... (19 of 45 words, pronunciation)
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Origin: the synthetic language "newspeak" in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), where it refers to a person who has not only been executed but the person's entire history erased.
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Origin: non- + person
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Origin: Latin non, from Old Latin noenu, noenum, from neoenum ("not one"). See none. | Latin nona ("nine").
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Origin: Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone ("human being"), French personne), and its source Latin persōna ("mask used by actor; role, part, character"), perhaps a loanword; compare Etruscan... (29 of 41 etymology words)
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