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We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
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Meaning of "populated" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POPULATED

populated  [ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪtɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POPULATED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Populated is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POPULATED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

populated

Population

A population is a summation of all the organisms of the same group or species, who live in the same geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding., the population of a certain species in a certain area is estimated using the Lincoln Index. The area that is used to define a sexual population is defined as the area where inter-breeding is potentially possible between any pair within the area. The probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of cross-breeding with individuals from other areas. Under normal conditions, breeding is substantially more common within the area than across the border. In sociology, population refers to a collection of human beings. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of human populations. This article refers mainly to human population.

Definition of populated in the English dictionary

The definition of populated in the dictionary is inhabited.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POPULATED


angulated
ˈæŋgjʊˌleɪtɪd
articulated
ɑːˈtɪkjʊˌleɪtɪd
calculated
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtɪd
capsulated
ˈkæpsjʊˌleɪtɪd
castellated
ˈkæstɪˌleɪtɪd
crenellated
ˈkrɛnɪˌleɪtɪd
insulated
ˈɪnsjʊˌleɪtɪd
mentholated
ˈmɛnθəˌleɪtɪd
overpopulated
ˌəʊvəˈpɒpjʊˌleɪtɪd
pixelated
ˈpɪksəˌleɪtɪd
pixellated
ˈpɪksəˌleɪtɪd
pixilated
ˈpɪksɪˌleɪtɪd
rutilated
ˈruːtɪˌleɪtɪd
simulated
ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪtɪd
uncirculated
ʌnˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪtɪd
uncorrelated
ʌnˈkɒrɪˌleɪtɪd
uninsulated
ʌnˈɪnsjʊˌleɪtɪd
unmodulated
ʌnˈmɒdʒʊˌleɪtɪd
unregulated
ʌnˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪtɪd
unstimulated
ʌnˈstɪmjʊˌleɪtɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POPULATED

popular music
popular press
popular sovereignty
popular vote
populariser
popularist
popularity
popularization
popularize
popularizer
popularly
populars
populate
population
population control
population explosion
population figures
population planning
population pyramid
populational

WORDS THAT END LIKE POPULATED

afflated
belated
chromium-plated
dedicated
deflated
elated
gold-plated
HIV-related
inflated
interrelated
isolated
lated
nickel-plated
plated
related
silver-plated
smoking-related
stress-related
unpopulated
unrelated
untranslated

Synonyms and antonyms of populated in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «POPULATED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «populated» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of populated

Translation of «populated» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POPULATED

Find out the translation of populated to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of populated from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «populated» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

人口
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poblada
570 millions of speakers

English

populated
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आबादी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بالسكان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

населенный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

povoada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জনবহুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peuplée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dihuni
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

besiedelte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

人口の多い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인구
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wilayah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dân cư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மக்கள் தொகை கொண்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रसिध्द
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nüfuslu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

popolata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zaludnione
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

населений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

populate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατοικημένες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bevolk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

befolkade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

befolket
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of populated

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POPULATED»

The term «populated» is very widely used and occupies the 17.818 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POPULATED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «populated» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «populated» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about populated

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10 QUOTES WITH «POPULATED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word populated.
1
Peter Baynham
I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.
2
Bonnie Bedelia
If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
3
Mick Cornett
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
4
Denise Crosby
I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!
5
Geena Davis
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
6
Richard H. Davis
Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.
7
Glen Duncan
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.
8
Jacob Epstein
My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
9
Kenneth Grahame
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
10
Marilyn Hacker
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POPULATED»

Discover the use of populated in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to populated and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth: ...
This is the first realistic assessment of both the mean casualty rate and the expected statistical fluctuations in that rate.
John S. Lewis, 2000
2
Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over ...
Assesses the risks of the Army's biological warfare program, discusses uses of germ warfare in Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, and examines the ethics of such weapons.
Leonard A. Cole, 1990
3
Studies on service problems in the sparsely populated areas ...
Doctoral thesis concerning the problems of depopulation in the six northernmost counties in Sweden and the consequent problems of planning services to these areas.
Gösta Weissglas, 1975
4
Automated Generation of Geometrically-Precise and ...
Automated. Generation. of. Informed. Virtual. Geographic. Environments. 6.1. Introduction In this chapter, we present a complete methodology for the automated generation of a graph-based Informed Virtual Geographic Environment (IVGE) ...
Mehdi Mekni, 2010
5
Prospects for Sustaining Potato and Sweetpotate Cropping ...
Number of Plots Cultivated by Farmers and their Distribution The densely populated highlands of Southwest Uganda are renowned for the high degree of land fragmentation and disputes over land (Kagambirwe, 1972). While fragmentation ...
6
Social Science
Practically every country of the world has some pocket of densely populated area . This is due to the concentration of economic, administrative and industrial activities. Such areas are mostly referred to as the metropolitan urban areas. 2.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute for Research in Social Science
7
Water Policy in the Netherlands: Integrated Management in a ...
The contributions in this book demonstrate how both the technical and social sciences must play key roles in crafting policy in the face of serious environmental challenges including climate change, sea level rise, and increasing soil ...
Stijn Reinhard, Henk Folmer, 2009
8
Multi-Modal Competition and the Future of Mail
For example, the average population density in Holland (430 persons/km2) is much greater than in the densely populated areas of Finland. Correspondingly, the population density of Germany (230 persons/km2) is not much less than that of ...
Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, 2012
9
The New Wider World
POPULATION Places with few people and a low population density are said to be sparsely populated. Europe • Low-lying and gently sloping. • Pleasant climate. • Good water supply and soil for farming. • Easy communications and many ...
David Waugh, Tony Bushell, 2001
10
L.S.A., List of C.F.R. Sections Affected
A, = casualty area (from table C-3) At = populated area N, = population in Ak risk: (9) Alternative casualty expectancy (EC ) analyses. An applicant may employ specified variations to the analysis defined by subparagraphs (c)(1)-(8).
‎2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POPULATED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term populated is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Is Palm Beach an over-crowded county?
... densely populated places where traffic isn't exactly free-flowing. ... test your knowledge of the most densely populated counties in Florida. «Palm Beach Post, Jul 15»
2
Peru Plans First Contact with Isolated Amazonian Tribe
According to a report by Reuters, tribe members have appeared in populated areas more than 100 times in the past year, often gesturing to ... «History, Jul 15»
3
Chaps hoping local flavor translates to bigger audience
It is a stand-alone, but it is heavily populated because of the shopping center. Our Reisterstown location has been very successful mainly ... «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
4
Missing lion search in Wisconsin city continues
"You're in a very concentrated, populated, urban area, so it's not like you can take a shot, wherever. It has to be at the right location," Dorow ... «ABC2 News, Jul 15»
5
Evacuations Ease As Wragg Fire Burns Away From Populated Areas
SOLANO COUNTY (CBS13) — The Wragg Fire moved into rugged terrain on Thursday as it burned for a second day in Napa and Solano ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
6
DNA Sparks Debate Over How the Americas Were First Populated
Despite the findings, two research groups are offering differing interpretations of the data and how the Americas were first populated. «The Bell Jar, Jul 15»
7
Swim from shark-populated San Francisco Bay -- with no wet suit?
The sun sets behind the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge, rear, in this view from the bay in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. «Inside Bay Area, Jul 15»
8
One wave of migration from Siberia populated the Americas, DNA …
A Native American man. Two studies published in the journals Science and Nature analysed present-day and ancient Native American and ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
Thwaites to speak on closure of under-populated primary schools …
Education minister Ronald Thwaites is expected today to make a statement in relation to the under-populated primary schools which are to be ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jul 15»
10
Mobile addicts could form the 4th most populated country in the world
If these mobile addicts united under the one banner on a specific landmass they would form the fourth most populated nation in the world ... «The Drum, Jul 15»

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