populate

Definitions


[ˈpɒpjʊleɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- form the population of (a place)
(e.g: the island is populated by scarcely 40,000 people)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century: from medieval Latin populat- ‘supplied with people’, from the verb populare, from populus ‘people’




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