1. Furnished with inhabitants
   "the area is well populated"; "forests populated with all kinds of wild life"

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"

See also: inhabited

Type of: be, fill, fill up

Encyclopedia: Populated