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pop⋅u⋅lous

   [pop-yuh-luhs]
–adjective
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.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME populus < L populōsus. See people, -ous
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pop·u·lous     (pŏp'yə-ləs)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population.

[Middle English, from Latin populōsus, from populus, the people; see popular.]
pop'u·lous·ly adv., pop'u·lous·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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