to people
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7.5
- verb
- /ˈpipəl/
- The novel is peopled with fascinating characters who each have their own unique stories.
- peopled landscape
- peopled world
Examples
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The early period of Islam, in particular, is peopled with such intelligent, assertive, and pious women.
Blog text (19) -
The court of Lilliput is peopled by petty Machiavellian schemers and technocrats.
Academic text (2016) -
The world must be peopled!
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While the project succeeded in peopling a remote region, the environmental costs were high and well publicized.
Academic text (1997) -
Like the Children of Israel, I peopled the desert with my hopes, anticipations, fears, and expectations.
Academic text (1993) -
Most often, Bennett achieved the picturesque by peopling the landscape with well-dressed Victorian men, women, and children.
Academic text (1998) -
The following Monday morning, I entered a woody, shadowy office lit by green lamps and peopled by Dickensian old men.
Fiction book (2002) -
The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food.
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Another Joycean, William Faulkner, turned a tiny, imagined Mississippi county into a densely peopled world, saturated by local and family history.
Academic text (2009) -
The city was once empty, but now it is peopled by diverse communities from around the world.
Synonyms
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1.6
To move many people or animals into a small space
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3.7
Fill a place with people or animals
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
136
8.0
To show surprise that one person, more than anyone else, did something unexpected
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
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7.5
A group of people who believe God selected them for a special purpose
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4.4
People who speak languages like Russian, Polish or Bulgarian, mainly in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
A South African group formed in 1996 to fight gangs and drugs, later accused of violent acts and extremism
How Populated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb people comes from the same root populus and is like the word populate, which means 'to fill with people', so to 'people' a place is to make it full of people.