Definitions
Having many inhabitants or a large population.
Word origin
First used in English in the mid 15th century; from Latin populosus (“full of people, populous”).
Used in a sentence
“China is the most populous country in the world.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Heavily inhabited”8 letters
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