Difference between People and Populate

What is the difference between People and Populate?

People as a verb is to stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. while Populate as a verb is to supply with inhabitants; to people.

People

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. To become populous or populated. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: ; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. (plural peoples) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; community. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. One's colleagues or employees. A person's ancestors, relatives or family. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

Example sentence: The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Populate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To supply with inhabitants; to people.To live in; to inhabit.To fill initially empty items in a list.

We hope you now know whether to use People or Populate in your sentence.

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