adj
Meaning 1
populous
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
populate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɒp.jʊˌleɪt/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈpɑ.pjəˌleɪt/
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Australian: /ˈpɔp.jəˌlæɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: P AA1 P Y AH0 L EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To supply with inhabitants; to people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To live in; to inhabit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 4
To increase in number; to breed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To fill initially empty items in a collection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.
- Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
Meaning 7
fill with inhabitants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fill, fill up, make full
Narrower terms: people
verb
Meaning 8
inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dwell, live, inhabit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: be
Narrower terms: tenant, neighbor, neighbour, occupy, reside, lodge in, shack, domicile, domiciliate, people, overpopulate, cohabit, live together, shack up, lodge, camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent, nest, board, room
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: заселвам (zaselvam) — to supply with inhabitants
- Catalan: poblar — to supply with inhabitants
- Ngazidja Comorian: udjaza — to supply with inhabitants
- Dutch: bevolken — to supply with inhabitants
- French: peupler — to supply with inhabitants
- German: besiedeln — to supply with inhabitants
- Hungarian: benépesít — to supply with inhabitants
- Hungarian: betelepít — to supply with inhabitants
- Ido: populizar — to supply with inhabitants
- Malay: memperpenduduk — to supply with inhabitants
- Pashto: ودانول (wadānawəl) — to supply with inhabitants
- Plautdietsch: bevelkjren — to supply with inhabitants
- Polish: zaludniać — to supply with inhabitants
- Polish: zaludnić — to supply with inhabitants
- Portuguese: povoar — to supply with inhabitants
- Romanian: popula — to supply with inhabitants
- Russian: заселять (zaseljatʹ) — to supply with inhabitants
- Spanish: poblar — to supply with inhabitants
- Turkish: meskûn kılmak — to supply with inhabitants
- Turkish: şeneltmek — to supply with inhabitants
- Ukrainian: заселя́ти (zaseljáty) — to supply with inhabitants
- Ukrainian: засели́ти (zaselýty) — to supply with inhabitants
- Ukrainian: населя́ти (naseljáty) — to supply with inhabitants
- Ukrainian: насели́ти (naselýty) — to supply with inhabitants
- Welsh: poblogi — to supply with inhabitants
- Bulgarian: населявам (naseljavam) — to live in
- Danish: befolke — to live in
- Dutch: wonen — to live in
- French: peupler — to live in
- German: besiedeln — to live in
- German: bevölkern — to live in
- Hungarian: lakik — to live in
- Hungarian: belakik — to live in
- Ido: populizar — to live in
- Malay: diami — to live in
- Persian: سکناگزیدن — to live in
- Polish: zaludniać — to live in
- Polish: zaludnić — to live in
- Polish: zasiedlać — to live in
- Polish: zasiedlić — to live in
- Russian: населя́ть (naseljátʹ) — to live in
- Ukrainian: населя́ти (naseljáty) — to live in
- Bulgarian: попълвам (popǎlvam) — to fill a list
- Dutch: aanvullen — to fill a list
- French: remplir — to fill a list
- German: füllen — to fill a list
- Hungarian: feltölt — to fill a list
- Hungarian: kitölt — to fill a list
- Hungarian: megtölt — to fill a list
- Hungarian: feltöltődik — to fill a list
- Hungarian: megtelik — to fill a list
- Persian: اسکاندن — to fill a list
- Persian: سکنادن — to fill a list
- Russian: заполнить (zapolnitʹ) — to fill a list
- Ukrainian: запо́внювати (zapóvnjuvaty) — to fill a list
- German: bestücken — to fill slots or sockets