Populous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Populous \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.
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              Heaven, yet populous, retains
              Number sufficient to possess her realms. --Milton.
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     2. Popular; famous. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
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     3. Common; vulgar. [Obs.] --Arden of Feversham.
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     4. Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] "The dust . . . raised
        by your populous troops." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Pop"u*lous*ly}, adv. --
        {Pop"u*lous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  populous
       adj : densely populated [syn: {thickly settled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "populous":
     alive with, bristling, bursting, close, colonized, compact,
     crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, empeopled, firm, full,
     in profusion, inhabited, jam-packed, jammed, 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