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populous

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pop·u·lous  (ppy-ls)
adj.
Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population.
[Middle English, from Latin populsus, from populus, the people; see popular.]
popu·lous·ly adv.
popu·lous·ness n.
populous
Adjective
containing many inhabitants
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.populous - densely populated
thickly settled
inhabited - having inhabitants; lived in; "the inhabited regions of the earth"
populous
adjective populated, crowded, packed, swarming, thronged, teeming, heavily populated, overpopulated
Translations
populous [ˈpɔpjuləs] adj → populoso
populous [ˈpɔpjuləs] adj → populeux/euse
populous [ˈpɔpjuləs] adj → dicht besiedelt
populous [ˈpɔpjuləs] adj → popolato/a


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The populous States would, with little difficulty, overrun their less populous neighbors.
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From the nature of what he was now doing it was inferable that the place was not so populous as its register may have shown it to be.
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There were great cages populous with fluttering and chattering foreign birds, and other great cages and greater wire pens, populous with quadrupeds, both native and foreign.
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