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Synonyms for populate

Most common

inhabit live dwell

All synonyms

Verb

1. Inhabit

inhabit, live, dwell

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To supply with inhabitants; to people.

Related words

Word family
populated popular population populous

Forms

Past participle
populated
e.g. populated → inhabited, lived, dwelt, peopled…

Example sentences

  • dwell We are the mirrors of the world in which we dwell.
  • inhabit Those tribes inhabit the desert all year round.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
populaterising
dwellrising
inhabitrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
live1
5 letters
dwell1
6 letters
people2
7 letters
inhabit3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (people2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
peupler
Italiano
popolare
Español
poblar
Deutsch
bevölkern