populate

v. inhabit, reside in; settle, establish a home

This article is about human populations. For the biological study of animal populations see population biology.For the use of the word populations in statistics, see statistical population. For the album by The Most Serene Republic, see Population (album). In sociology and biology a population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the labor force, and family planning. Various aspects of human behavior in populations are also studied in sociology, economics, and geography. Study of populations is almost always governed by the laws of probability, and the conclusions of the studies may thus not always be applicable to some individuals. This odd factor may be reduced by statistical means, but such a generalization may be too vague to imply anything. Demography is used extensively in marketing, which relates to economic units, such as retailers, to potential customers. For example, a coffee shop that wants to sell to a younger audience looks at the demographics of an area to be able to appeal to this younger audience.
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Verb
1. make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
(synonym) dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, domicile, domiciliate
(hypernym) be
(hyponym) neighbor, neighbour
(derivation) population
2. fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
(synonym) people
(hypernym) fill, fill up, make full
(derivation) population

(v. t.)
To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
  

(v. i.)
To propagate.
  

(a.)
Populous.
  

Synonyms and related words:
anchor, billet at, bivouac, burrow, camp, colonize, come to anchor, denizen, domesticate, drop anchor, dwell in, empeople, ensconce, establish residence, hive, inhabit, keep house, live at, live in, locate, moor, move, nest, occupy, park, people, perch, plant, relocate, reside, reside in, roost, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, settle in, sit down, squat, stand, stay at, strike root, take residence at, take root, take up residence