POPULOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does populous mean? 

• POPULOUS (adjective)
  The adjective POPULOUS has 1 sense:

1. densely populated

  Familiarity information: POPULOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Densely populated

Synonyms:

populous; thickly settled

Similar:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

 Context examples 

Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This is not such a populous neighbourhood.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The road along which he travelled was scarce as populous as most other roads in the kingdom, and far less so than those which lie between the larger towns.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The naked earth, which so shortly before had been so populous, thrust his loneliness more forcibly upon him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We followed her at a short distance, our way lying in the same direction, until we came back into the lighted and populous streets.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place.

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

We were now, as far as I could see, on a sort of common; but there were houses scattered all over the district; I felt we were in a different region to Lowood, more populous, less picturesque; more stirring, less romantic.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By ten o'clock, the chaise and four conveyed the trio from the abbey; and, after an agreeable drive of almost twenty miles, they entered Woodston, a large and populous village, in a situation not unpleasant.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)