populate

verb

/ˈpɒpjuleɪt/

/ˈpɑːpjuleɪt/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they populate	/ˈpɒpjuleɪt/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪt/
he / she / it populates	/ˈpɒpjuleɪts/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪts/
past simple populated	/ˈpɒpjuleɪtɪd/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪtɪd/
past participle populated	/ˈpɒpjuleɪtɪd/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪtɪd/
-ing form populating	/ˈpɒpjuleɪtɪŋ/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪtɪŋ/

jump to other results

[often passive] populate something to live in an area and form its population 居住于；生活于；构成…的人口synonym inhabit
- a heavily/densely/sparsely/thinly populated country人口密集／稠密／稀疏／稀少的国家
- The island is populated largely by sheep.这个岛的主要生物是绵羊。
- (figurative) the amazing characters that populate her novels常见于她小说中的令人惊叹的人物
populate something to move people or animals to an area to live there迁移；移居；殖民于
- The French began to populate the island in the 15th century.法国人于 15 世纪开始迁移到这个岛。
populate something (computing计算机) to add data to a document（给文件）增添数据，输入数据

Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin populat- ‘supplied with people’, from the verb populare, from populus ‘people’.

BNC: 9684 COCA: 7198

populate