Hypertext Webster Gateway: "populate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Populate \Pop"u*late\, a. [L. populus people. See {People}.]
Populous. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. i.
To propagate. [Obs.]
Great shoals of people which go on to populate.
--Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
populate
v : make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people
in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These
people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted";
"The plains are sparsely populated" [syn: {dwell}, {shack},
{reside}, {live}, {inhabit}, {people}]
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