populate

[ pop-yuh-leyt ]

/ ˈpɒp yəˌleɪt /

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verb (used with object), pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing.

to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.

to furnish with inhabitants, as by colonization; people.

Origin of populate

1570–80; < Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populāre to inhabit. See people, -ate¹

OTHER WORDS FROM populate

out·pop·u·late, verb (used with object), out·pop·u·lat·ed, out·pop·u·lat·ing. re·pop·u·late, verb (used with object), re·pop·u·lat·ed, re·pop·u·lat·ing. su·per·pop·u·lat·ed, adjective un·der·pop·u·late, verb (used with object), un·der·pop·u·lat·ed, un·der·pop·u·lat·ing.

un·pop·u·lat·ed, adjective

Words nearby populate

popular sovereignty, popular vote, popularity, popularize, popularly, populate, population, population control, population explosion, population genetics, population inversion

Example sentences from the Web for populate

Her Facebook photos could populate a tame “girls with guns” style calendar.

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There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.

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For the truly massive companies that populate the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the percentage is even higher.

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The SUVs, coupes, and sedans that populate dealer showrooms are much greener than their antecedents.

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If few or no results are found for a query, results from Bing, Microsoft's search engine, will populate the page.

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In order to populate the new port, he proclaimed there a religious liberty he denied to his Duchy at large.

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And on those ships are enough people to populate a town as large as the one where I was raised.

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But Venone knows better now, and their criminals will not populate more worlds.

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This certainly is a new method to populate our colonies with capitalists.

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They needed souls and chimeras to populate the imaginary regions which they have discovered in the other life.

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British Dictionary definitions for populate

populate

/ (ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt) /

verb (tr)

(often passive) to live in; inhabit

to provide a population for; colonize or people

Word Origin for populate

C16: from Medieval Latin populāre to provide with inhabitants, from Latin populus people

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