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Definition populate

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin popul?tus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).

Verb

populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)

1. (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
2. (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
3. (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
4. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
5. (electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

Adjective

populate (comparative more populate, superlative most populate)

1. (obsolete) populous