peopling
SayPEE-puh-lingUS/ˈpi.pl.ɪŋ/UK/ˈpiː.pl.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of people.
Settlers were peopling the frontier faster than the government could map it.
The slow peopling of the river delta reshaped the whole region.
Note
This form comes from the verb people, not the noun, and drops the final e before -ing. As a gerund it names a collective process and usually takes of plus a place: the peopling of a valley or a coast. As a participle it is mostly transitive, as when settlers people a frontier, but it can also stand alone for a place filling up. A rare informal use means socializing.
peopling is a form of people
people, verb: To fill a place with inhabitants; to populate it. Full entry
- Spelling
- people → peopling: drop the e, add -ing
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