About The Word Populous
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Populous
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What's The Definition Of Populous?
[adj] densely populated
Synonyms | Synonyms for Populous: inhabited | thickly settled Related Terms | Find terms related to Populous: 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 See Also | Populous In Webster's Dictionary \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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