to populate
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3.7
- verb
- /ˈpɒpjʊleɪt/
:
poblar
- Here you are doing important work, helping humanity populate the stars, building a better future for everyone.
- densely populated
- sparsely populated
- a populated area
Brooklyn out populates Philadelphia by itself by a lot.
- Brooklyn out populates Philadelphia by itself by a lot.
- And the rise of the car allows people to drive away from downtown areas and populate the suburbs.
- Yeah, seriously populating the whole area.
- Oh, I've Carrie and I have booked our place to Mars because we're writing that if, if Mars is populated, they're going to need built in grandparents.
- I know as I thought about this video, I thought about the many narcissistic people who still populate my life in the workplace and my family amongst my friends.
- And trying to run a company that's populated by only narcissistic employees and their enablers, well, that's a fool's venture.
- And then you get into this shit with Elon where he talks about falling birth rates and he, you know, he's there and he wants to populate Mars.
- Or did that initial wave of people that came and populated South America, were they the ancestors of the Maya?
Examples
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And where are the visitors trying to trying to populate this planet that we're on?
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What does that mean for how we populate the planet and cohabitate in a sustainable fashion?
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We met all the people who would populate our little world for the net year.
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And the rise of the car allows people to drive away from downtown areas and populate the suburbs.
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Then they were marched, still in their chains, to ships and sent to populate the colony.
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Seventy-five farmers ultimately populated the project lands, but it was not occupied in full until 1943.
Academic text (1999) -
Many of the earliest Mexicans to populate places in Arizona came from Sonora or Chihuahua.
Academic text (2008) -
Rosie is a doting, whimsical mother, and Lily's neighborhood is populated by colorful characters.
Fiction book (1999) -
In recent years, many families have chosen to populate the countryside to escape city life.
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Wild animals began to populate the area after humans stopped using the land for farming.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To make a place full by putting people or things into it
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3.3
To fill space or time
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3.5
To live in a place like a house or area
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7.5
To fill a place with residents
Antonyms
How Populated
Surface Forms
Morphology
populate = population (transparent) = popul + ate
The verb is readily linked to 'population'/'people' and to the productive verb-forming pattern '-ate' meaning 'cause to be', so learners can infer 'to fill with people'.
Etymology
Populate comes from the Latin populus, meaning 'people', the same root you see in population and popular. So to populate a place is to fill it with people or animals, like when a new town grows or wildlife moves into an area.