Definition of "populate"

populate

/ˈpɒp.jʊˌleɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated
1. (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
2. (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
3. (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
4. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
5. (electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
adjective
comparative more populate, superlative most populate
1. (obsolete) populous
  Quotations
  Now, a famous King, and ſtrengthened with a Prince of ſingular expectation, and in the prime of his years, owner of the entire Iſle of Britain, enjoying Ireland populate and quiet, and infinitely more ſupported by Confederates of the Low-Countries, Denmarke, divers of the Princes of Germany and others.
  a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Bacon Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, “Notes of a Speech, concerning a War with Spaine”, in Letters, Memoirs, Parliamentary Affairs, State Papers, &c., London: Robert Stephens, published 1736, page 228