Populated

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Characterized by an abundance of residents or groups within a particular space
2. Containing a multitude of people or organisms in a specified location
3. Having inhabitants living in a defined area or place

Etymology: "Populated" is the past participle of "populate," which was borrowed from Medieval Latin "populātus," the past participle of "populare," meaning to people or to settle. That Latin verb grew from "populus," the word for "people" or a community of citizens, and it is the same root that gave English "people" and "popular" by different routes. The adjective, then, carries the sense of a place that has been peopled, filled with inhabitants who have settled there.

Synonyms: inhabited, settled, occupied, crowded, teeming

Antonyms: uninhabited, deserted, vacant, empty, barren