Definition for POP'U-LOUS

POP'U-LOUS, a. [L. populosus.]

Full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. A territory containing fifteen or twenty inhabitants to a square mile is not a populous country. The Netherlands, and some parts of Italy, containing a hundred and fifty inhabitants to a square mile are deemed populous.

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