Populous
['pɒpjʊləs] or ['pɑpjələs]
Definition
(a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
(a.) Popular; famous.
(a.) Common; vulgar.
(a.) Numerous; in large number.
Checker: Ramona
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Crowded, thickly settled.
Edited by Hattie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Crowded, dense, swarming, thronged
ANT:Deserted, thin, scanty, unfrequented, unoccupied, uninhabited
Editor: Maris
Examples
- Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The street is in a populous and a poor neighbourhood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To a certain extent--with regard to populous districts, and in the metropolis, said the Doctor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is within the memory of many now living everywhere how wretched was the sanitary accommodations in every populous place a generation or two ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We followed her at a short distance, our way lying in the same direction, until we came back into the lighted and populous streets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But Flanders still continues to be one of the richest, best cultivated, and most populous provinces of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those countries are represented as more fertile, more extensive, and, in proportion to their extent, much richer and more populous than Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You are as populous as a hive of bees, said Maurice, as they walked down to the lake; soon the island will be too small. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This is not such a populous neighbourhood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Though both were extremely populous, yet, in years of moderate plenty, they were both able to export great quantities of grain to their neighbours. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such countries are accordingly much more populous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Maris