Definitions for: Populate


[v] fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
[v] make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"



Webster (1913) Definition: Pop"u*late, a. [L. populus people. See People.]
Populous. [Obs.] --Bacon.


Pop"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Populated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Populating.]
To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by
immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to
people.


Pop"u*late, v. i.
To propagate. [Obs.]

Great shoals of people which go on to populate.
--Bacon.

Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, dwell, inhabit, live, people, people, reside, shack

See Also: be, bivouac, board, camp, camp out, cohabit, encamp, fill, fill up, live in, live out, lodge, lodge in, make full, neighbor, neighbour, occupy, overpopulate, room, rusticate, shack up, sleep in, sleep out, tent

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