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Webster 1913 Edition
Populate
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.
When there be great shoals of people which go on to populate.
POP'ULATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
populate
populate
English
Verb
populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)
- (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
- (intransitive) To live in; to inhabit.
- (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
to supply with inhabitants
to live in
Adjective
populate (comparative more populate, superlative most populate)
- (obsolete) populous
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)