populous

populous
—populously, adv. —populousness, n.
/pop"yeuh leuhs/, adj.
1. full of residents or inhabitants, as a region; heavily populated.
2. jammed or crowded with people: There's no more populous place than Times Square on New Year's Eve.
3. forming or comprising a large number or quantity: Because of epidemics the tribes are not nearly so populous as they once were.
[1400-50; late ME populus < L populosus. See PEOPLE, -OUS]
Syn. 2. swarming, packed, teeming.

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