peopled

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of people.

   Waves of migrants peopled the river valley throughout the century.

   Within decades the colony was peopled by farmers from across the sea.

   Note

   A regular past form: one spelling serves both the simple past (settlers peopled the valley) and the participle (the valley was peopled by settlers). Most uses are transitive, with a place as the object, but the verb can also stand alone, meaning that a place itself grew populous. The participle settled into the adjective for inhabited places, as in a densely peopled coast.

2. 2
   adjective

   Inhabited; having people living in or occupying a place.

   The densely peopled coast supported dozens of fishing towns.

   Travelers preferred the more peopled routes, where help was never far away.

   Similarpopulated, inhabited, settled, populous

   Oppositeuninhabited, deserted, empty

3. 3
   adjective

   Staffed or operated by human workers rather than running automatically.

   The peopled lighthouse kept its lamp lit through every storm.

   Mission control remained fully peopled during the entire launch.

   Similarstaffed, manned, crewed

   Oppositeunmanned, unstaffed, automated

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