| 单词 | populous |
| 释义 | populous (once / 1297 pages) adj A populous place is full of people. If you left your cabin in the Maine woods to spend the weekend in New York City, you'd be particularly aware of how populous the city is. Anything that's dense with people can be described as populous, like the country of China or the city of Mumbai or even a crowded airport. Populous is a Latin word that means simply "people." It was adopted by English in the 15th century to mean "full of people." The adjective populous is easy to confuse with the noun populace, "the people who live in a country," especially since they are homonyms, or words that sound exactly the same. WORD FAMILYpopulous: populously USAGE EXAMPLESDuring the campaign, Trump referred to Chicago, America’s third most populous city, as an example of rising inner-city crime. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The court was hobbled from the beginning, Nice said, by the world’s most populous states’ refusal to ratify the treaty. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) In Egypt—a populous, young country, with cheap labor and great access to shipping lanes—manufacturing is only sixteen per cent of a weak G.D.P. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) adj densely populated Syn thickly settled inhabited having inhabitants; lived in |
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