peopled

Settled with inhabitants

Peopled is the past tense of people used as a verb, meaning populated or inhabited.

A region can be peopled by immigrants, a novel peopled with eccentric characters.

The word emphasizes who fills a space rather than mere presence: The office was peopled with ambitious young graduates.

It often carries a sense of deliberate composition or characterization.

inhabited

settlers

Those who establish homes

colonistsSettlers in new territory
residentsPeople living somewhere
dwellersThose who occupy space

occupants · inhabitants · natives · locals · denizens · homesteaders · pioneers · tenants · villagers · townsfolk

staffed

manned

Staffed with personnel

crewedStaffed with workers
operatedControlled or functioned
employedHaving paid work

filled · assigned · stationed · deployed · occupied · serviced · run · maintained · attended · workforce

crowded

thronged

Filled with crowds

teemingAbundantly full of
swarmingGathering in large numbers
bustlingFull of energetic activity

packed · jostling · overflowing · mobbed · heaving · brimming · overrun · massed · streaming · milling

Opposites

human habitation/population

peopledunpeopled

Having no residents

uninhabited · deserted · empty · depopulated · abandoned

social density/activity

peopleddesolate

Bleak and abandoned

lifeless · empty · lonely · solitary · isolated

Phrases

some peopleAn unspecified group
old peopleAged members of society
those peopleSpecified distant individuals
young peopleThose in early life
famous peopleWidely recognized public figures
of all peopleExpression noting ironic choice

Family

people, peoples, people's, unpeopled, peopling, overpeopled, depeopled

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