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Webster 1913 Edition


Populate

Pop′u-late

,
Adj.
[L.
populus
people. See
People
.]
Populous.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Pop′u-late

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Populated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Populating
.]
To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

Pop′u-late

,
Verb.
I.
To propagate.
[Obs.]
Great shoals of people which go on to
populate
.
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Populate

POP'ULATE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. populus.] To breed people; to propagate.
When there be great shoals of people which go on to populate.

POP'ULATE

,
Verb.
T.
To people; to furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase, or by immigration or colonization.

Definition 2024


populate

populate

English

Verb

populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)

  1. (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
  2. (intransitive) To live in; to inhabit.
  3. (computing, transitive/intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
    John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.
    Clicking on the download will populate the data into Excel.

Antonyms

Translations

Adjective

populate (comparative more populate, superlative most populate)

  1. (obsolete) populous
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Latin

Participle

populāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of populātus