1. Be an inhabitant of; spend most of one's life in
   "deer are populating the woods";
   - dwell, live, inhabit
    
2. Fill with inhabitants
   "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
    
3. (computing) put items into a list or database
   "We need to populate the dropdown menu with user names"

Derived forms: populating, populated, populates

Type of: be, fill, fill up

Encyclopedia: Populate