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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POP'ULOUS, a. [L. populosus.] Full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. A territory containing fifteen or twenty inhabitants to a square mile is not a populous country. The Netherlands, and some parts of Italy, containing a hundred and fifty inhabitants to a square mile, are deemed populous.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: densely populated [syn: populous, thickly settled]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin populosus, from populus people Date: 15th century 1. a. densely populated b. having a large population 2. a. numerous b. filled to capacity • populously adverb • populousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. thickly inhabited. Derivatives: populously adv. populousness n. Etymology: ME f. LL populosus (as PEOPLE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms. --Milton. 2. Popular; famous. [Obs.] --J. Webster. 3. Common; vulgar. [Obs.] --Arden of Feversham. 4. Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] ``The dust . . . raised by your populous troops.'' --Shak. -- Pop"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Pop"u*lous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A populous country or area has a lot of people living in it. (FORMAL) Indonesia, with 216 million people, is the fourth most populous country in the world. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Crowded, thickly settled.

Moby Thesaurus

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