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populous

/ˈpɒpjʊləs/US/ˈpɑpjələs/

populous adjective: having a large population.

Adjective

populous (comparative more populous, superlative most populous)

  1. Having a large population.
    • China is the most populous country in the world.
  2. Spoken by a large number of people.
    • Chinese is the most populous language.
    • The Sino-Tibetan family includes Mandarin, the most populous language in the world, spoken by more than one billion Chinese.1974, Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina M. Hyams, An Introduction to Language, →ISBN, page 524
  3. Densely populated.
    • The Nile delta is a populous region.
  4. Crowded with people.
    • Airport departure halls are often populous places during the rush hours.

populous meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese

populous in Urdu

populous
آباد ābād

populous in Malayalam

നിവാസികളുള്ള, ജനസമൃദ്ധിയുള്ള, ജനനിബിഡമായ, ജനപ്പെരുപ്പമുള്ള

populous in Kannada

ಜನಭರಿತ, ಕಿಕ್ಕಿರಿದ, ಜನನಿಬಿಡ, ಜನಸಾಂದ್ರ, ಇಟ್ಟಣಿಸಿದ, ಇಡಿಕಿರಿದ

populous in Vietnamese

having a large population
đông, đông đảo

Examples of populous in a sentence

  • India has recently unseated China as the world’s most populous country.
  • Singapore is the world's most populous city state and the only island city-state in the world.
  • In the United States, a populous state such as California or Texas has a lot of electoral votes.

All 26 example sentences with populous

Forms of populous

comparativemore populous
superlativemost populous

Origin of populous

First used in English in the mid 15th century; from Latin populosus (“full of people, populous”).

Words formed from populous

Questions about populous

What does populous mean?
Populous means having a large population.
What is populous in Urdu?
Populous in Urdu is آباد (ābād). See Populous meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is populous?
Populous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce populous?
Populous is pronounced /ˈpɒpjʊləs/ (UK).

Words near populous in the dictionary

  1. populists
  2. populizer
  3. populizers
  4. populomics
  5. populosity
  6. populous
  7. populously
  8. populousness
  9. Populuxe
  10. popunder
  11. popunders

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: populous (page history and authors); آباد (Urdu) (page history and authors); populous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); populous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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