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# populate

verb

«populate» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

141 uses in 96 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a verb in 141 of 141. By the class of the article: city 39, country 32, agglomeration 21, university 3. Most often with: «most», «area», «densely», «city», «population».

### Examples

- The population density is 3603.3 per square mile (1,377/km2), making it the second most densely populated township in Montgomery County after Cheltenham Township. — [Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), sentence 3 («wiki:Abington\_Township,\_Montgomery\_County,\_Pennsylvania:3»)
- According to Georgian historians and foreign scholars such as Donald Rayfield, Georgian tribes (Svans and Mingrelians) had populated Abkhazia since the times of Colchis and Lazica. — [Abkhazia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia), sentence 79 («wiki:Abkhazia:79»)
- Television transmission was limited to covering populated neighbourhoods in the city of Aden, especially where soldiers and families of the British forces were present. — [Aden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), sentence 409 («wiki:Aden:409»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Abkhazia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Aden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.