POPULATE

populate

(verb) fill with inhabitants; “populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting”

populate, dwell, live, inhabit

(verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in; “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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)

(transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.

(transitive) To live in; to inhabit.

(intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.

(computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.

(electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

Antonyms

• depopulate

Adjective

populate (comparative more populate, superlative most populate)

(obsolete) populous

Source: Wiktionary

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Pop"u*late, a. Etym: [L. populus people. See People.]

Definition: Populous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pop"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Populated; p. pr. & vb. n. Populating.]

Definition: 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.

Definition: To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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