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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

alive with, bristling, bursting, close, colonized, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, empeopled, firm, full, in profusion, inhabited, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, legion, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, overflowing, packed, peopled, populated, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, settled, several, solid, studded, sundry, superabundant, swarming, teeming, tenanted, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, various, voluminous

Dictionary Results for populous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

populous
    adj 1: densely populated [syn: populous, thickly settled]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Populous \Pop"u*lous\, a. [L. populosus, fr. populus people: cf.
   F. populeux.]
   1. Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many
      inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
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            Heaven, yet populous, retains
            Number sufficient to possess her realms. --Milton.
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   2. Popular; famous. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
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   3. Common; vulgar. [Obs.] --Arden of Feversham.
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   4. Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] "The dust . . . raised
      by your populous troops." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster] -- Pop"u*lous*ly, adv. --
      Pop"u*lous*ness, n.
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