POPULOUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Densely populated

Synonyms:

populous; thickly settled

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

Credits

Context examples:

In the ancient and populous county of Hampshire there was no lack of leaders or of soldiers for a service which promised either honor or profit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He found himself an outcast in the midst of the populous camp.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There could not be fewer than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednesday, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such;—but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever wanted was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Yet here it was that the will of a great prince had now assembled a gallant army; so that from the Adour to the passes of Navarre the barren valleys and wind-swept wastes were populous with soldiers and loud with the shouting of orders and the neighing of horses.