Populate
['pɒpjʊleɪt] or ['pɑpjulet]
Definition
(verb.) fill with inhabitants; 'populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting'.
(verb.) inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; 'People lived in Africa millions of years ago'; 'The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted'; 'this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean'; 'deer are populating the woods'.
Checked by Dylan--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Populous.
(v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
(v. i.) To propagate.
Checker: Merle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. People.
Inputed by Elvira
Examples
- By the way, how did you populate this new Rome of yours? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And away went the coach up Whitechapel, to the admiration of the whole population of that pretty densely populated quarter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A country populated by pure logicians and mathematical scientists would, I believe, produce few inventions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Streams which flow through populated regions are apt to be contaminated, and hence water from them requires public filtration. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In time, I populated Melnos accorded to my mind, and then set my new subjects to work on dwellings and industries. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Their world is not populated by men and women, but by a Unity that is Permanent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Millicent