populate
To supply with inhabitants; to people.
Other meanings
To live in; to inhabit.
To increase in number; to breed.
Synonyms
- live
- inhabit
Related words
- autopopulate
- depopulate
- outpopulate
- overpopulate
- prepopulate
- repopulate
- underpopulate
- unpopulate
Word history
From Latin "populus" (people).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “populate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.