populous
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
populous/ˈpɒpjələs/
▶adjective having a large population.
– derivatives
populously adverb,
populousness noun.
populously adverb,
populousness noun.
– origin ME: from late L. populosus, from populus ‘people’.
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