Meaning of POPULOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâpyûlus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] densely populated |
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| | Synonyms: | | inhabited, thickly settled |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pop"u*lous\, a. [L. populosus, fr. populus people: cf.
F. populeux.]
1. Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many
inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to
possess her realms. --Milton.
2. Popular; famous. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
3. Common; vulgar. [Obs.] --Arden of Feversham.
4. Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] ``The dust . . . raised
by your populous troops.'' --Shak. -- {Pop"u*lous*ly},
adv. -- {Pop"u*lous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | alive with, bristling, bursting, close, colonized, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, empeopled, firm, full, in profusion, inhabited, jammed, jam-packed, lavish, legion, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, overflowing, packed, peopled, populated, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, settled, several, solid, studded, sundry, superabundant, swarming, teeming, tenanted, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, various, voluminous |
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