What does "populate" mean?
Populate: Populous. [Obs.] Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
- 3.To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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