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Definition of populous in English: populousadjective ˈpɒpjʊləsˈpɑpjələs Having a large population; densely populated. 人口众多的；人口稠密的 the populous city of Shanghai Example sentencesExamples - The fighting is just the latest bout of ethnic violence to grip Africa's most populous nation.
- It's the tenth most populous city in the world and continues to expand like anything.
- Late last year it looked as if the most populous nation and the most widespread faith were reconciling.
- These are natural questions from people who have spent their lives in populous western cities.
- Corruption has spawned popular anger and instability lurks in the world's most populous nation.
- It is, after all, the world's largest democracy and second most populous nation.
- This tide is driven by the two most populous nations in the world.
- He represented the least populous state in the nation, and one of the poorest.
- The drop in prices was driven by a 5.4 per cent decline in Sydney, the most populous city.
- He will wind up his trip in Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation and biggest oil producer.
- It ranks 10th in the world, just behind much more populous nations such as China and Brazil.
- Germany is the most populous nation in the European Community and has the largest economy.
- This is a very big city of course, it's the biggest city in the state, it's the fourth most populous city in the US.
- Being fed up with the madding crowd in one of the country's most populous cities, I wanted to get closer to nature.
- The most populous nation on earth is undergoing the most rapid economic growth in human history.
- After his death, Americans might insist on having some real elections in that populous nation.
- The capital city, Bujumbura, is the populous and most industrialized city.
- The populous cities in particular became dependent on distant agricultural trade.
- Islamic radicals in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, dismissed the tape as propaganda.
- All this despite the fact that Scotland is one of the least populous nations in Europe.
Synonyms densely populated, heavily populated, thickly populated, heavily settled, crowded, congested, packed, jammed, crammed, teeming, swarming, seething, crawling, full informal jam-packed British informal like Piccadilly Circus
Derivativesadverb noun One was concerned with the relative populousness of the ancient and modern worlds and the other seven were contributions to what is now called economics. Example sentencesExamples - The bewildering populousness of Friday night's party was in stark contrast to the scenes on Saturday morning at the rowing, where nobody seemed to have turned up who wasn't either a rower or Tony Blair.
- Moreover, planters like Long contradicted themselves in blaming polygamy for low fertility while citing the ‘populousness’ of West Africa, where the practice ‘universally prevailed’.
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin populosus, from populus 'people'. Definition of populous in US English: populousadjectiveˈpɑpjələsˈpäpyələs Having a large population; densely populated. 人口众多的；人口稠密的 the populous city of Shanghai Example sentencesExamples - These are natural questions from people who have spent their lives in populous western cities.
- After his death, Americans might insist on having some real elections in that populous nation.
- It ranks 10th in the world, just behind much more populous nations such as China and Brazil.
- The fighting is just the latest bout of ethnic violence to grip Africa's most populous nation.
- The capital city, Bujumbura, is the populous and most industrialized city.
- The most populous nation on earth is undergoing the most rapid economic growth in human history.
- All this despite the fact that Scotland is one of the least populous nations in Europe.
- Late last year it looked as if the most populous nation and the most widespread faith were reconciling.
- It is, after all, the world's largest democracy and second most populous nation.
- This is a very big city of course, it's the biggest city in the state, it's the fourth most populous city in the US.
- This tide is driven by the two most populous nations in the world.
- The drop in prices was driven by a 5.4 per cent decline in Sydney, the most populous city.
- He will wind up his trip in Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation and biggest oil producer.
- Islamic radicals in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, dismissed the tape as propaganda.
- It's the tenth most populous city in the world and continues to expand like anything.
- The populous cities in particular became dependent on distant agricultural trade.
- He represented the least populous state in the nation, and one of the poorest.
- Germany is the most populous nation in the European Community and has the largest economy.
- Corruption has spawned popular anger and instability lurks in the world's most populous nation.
- Being fed up with the madding crowd in one of the country's most populous cities, I wanted to get closer to nature.
Synonyms densely populated, heavily populated, thickly populated, heavily settled, crowded, congested, packed, jammed, crammed, teeming, swarming, seething, crawling, full
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin populosus, from populus ‘people’. |