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PEOPLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peopled mean?
• PEOPLED (adjective)
The adjective PEOPLED has 1 sense:
1. furnished with people
Familiarity information: PEOPLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnished with people
Context example:
sparsely peopled arctic regions
Similar:
inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)
Context examples
If, therefore, I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They were stars, I knew, and flaring comets, that peopled my flight among the suns.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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