Populous Meaning
/ˈpɒpjʊləs/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving a large population.
adjSpoken by a large number of people.
Sentence Examples
No city in Europe is as populous as Tokyo.
San Francisco is only one-tenth as populous as New York.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ country, China, has over 1.4 billion people living within its borders.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The most ____ city in the country has a metropolitan area of over twenty million people.
Word Origin & History
First used in English in the mid 15th century; from Latin populosus (“full of people, populous”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The Sino-Tibetan family includes Mandarin, the most populous language in the world, spoken by more than one billion Chinese."
— 1974, Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina M. Hyams, An Introduction to Language, →ISBN, page 524:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ country, China, has over 1.4 billion people living within its borders.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The most ____ city in the country has a metropolitan area of over twenty million people.