Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - populate
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Populate
populate
~ v be populated if an area is populated by a particular group of people, they live there + by (The Central Highlands are populated mainly by peasant farmers. | densely/heavily/highly/thickly populated (=a lot of people live in that place in relation to its size)) (densely populated urban areas | thinly/sparsely populated (=few people live in that place in relation to its size)) (The northern islands are very sparsely populated.)
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(populates, populating, populated) 1. If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers. Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks. ...native Sindhis, who populate the surrounding villages. = inhabit VERB: be V-ed, V n • populated The southeast is the most densely populated area... ADJ: adv ADJ • -populated Shelling from federal army tanks razed half the houses in the Croat-populated part of Glina. COMB in ADJ 2. To populate an area means to cause people to live there. Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people. VERB: V n with n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb (-lated; -lating) Etymology: Medieval Latin populatus, past participle of populare to people, from Latin populus people Date: 1578 1. to have a place in ; occupy, inhabit 2. a. to furnish or provide with inhabitants ; people b. to provide with members ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 inhabit; form the population of (a town, country, etc.). 2 supply with inhabitants; people (a densely populated district). Etymology: med.L populare populat- (as PEOPLE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. уст. людный 2. населять, заселять to populate a new country —- заселять новую страну densely (thickly) populated areas —- густонаселенные районы, районы с высокой плотностью населения 3. редк. плодиться, размножаться ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1574, from M.L. populatus, pp. of populare "inhabit, from L. populus "inhabitants. Population is 1612, from L.L. populationem (nom. populatio) "a people, multitude," from L. populus "people." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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