populate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pop=u=late
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

populate, a. [L. populus people. See People.].

 Populous.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

populate, v. t. 

 To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.  [1913 Webster]

populate, v. i. 

 To propagate.  [1913 Webster]
"Great shoals of people which go on to populate."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

populate, v.tr.
1 inhabit; form the population of (a town, country, etc.).
2 supply with inhabitants; people (a densely populated district).

Etymology

med.L populare populat- (as PEOPLE)

THESAURUS

populate

anchor, billet at, bivouac, burrow, camp, colonize, come to anchor, denizen, domesticate, drop anchor, dwell in, empeople, ensconce, establish residence, hive, inhabit, keep house, live at, live in, locate, moor, move, nest, occupy, park, people, perch, plant, relocate, reside, reside in, roost, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, settle in, sit down, squat, stand, stay at, strike root, take residence at, take root, take up residence