1. to live in or inhabit a place
2. to fill a place with people or things
3. to enter data into a database or form
Usage: computing

Examples

• Millions of people populate the city.
• Early settlers began to populate the western territories.
• Fish populate the lake during spawning season.
• The government plans to populate the new housing development.
• Dense forests populate the mountainous region.
• The software will automatically populate the fields with your information.
• Various species populate this ecosystem.