What part of speech is peopled?

Peopled can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. peopled is a verb, past participle of people (infinitive).
  • 2. peopled is a verb, past simple of people (infinitive).
  • 3. peopled is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more peopled
    most peopled
  • Positive: peopled 
  • Comparative: more peopled
  • Superlative: most peopled

What does peopled mean?

Definitions

Adjective

peopled - furnished with people; "sparsely peopled arctic regions"

Verb

people - fill with people; "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"
people - furnish with people; "The plains are sparsely populated"

Examples of peopled

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Sparsely peopled arctic regions.
2. adj. Now came an end of mourning and of woe, / when Jove, surveying from his prospect high / shore, sail-winged sea, and peopled earth below, / stood, musing, on the summit of the sky, / and on the Libyan kingdom fixed his eye.
3. adj. "Seas remain / to plough, long years of exile must be thine, / ere thou at length Hesperia's land shalt gain, / where Lydian Tiber glides through many a peopled plain."
4. verb In fact, a group of their ancestors peopled a continent on the planet Earth about 250 000 of your Earth years ago.
5. verb Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
6. verb Yet Burzee has its inhabitants. Nature peopled it in the beginning with Fairies, Knooks, Ryls and Nymphs.
7. verb Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes.
8. noun His people have been farmers for generations.
9. noun Are your people still alive?
10. noun The Spanish people.
11. noun Power to the people.
Sentence  
adj.
Sparsely peopled arctic regions.
Now came an end of mourning and of woe, / when Jove, surveying from his prospect high / shore, sail-winged sea, and peopled earth below, / stood, musing, on the summit of the sky, / and on the Libyan kingdom fixed his eye.
"Seas remain / to plough, long years of exile must be thine, / ere thou at length Hesperia's land shalt gain, / where Lydian Tiber glides through many a peopled plain."
verb
In fact, a group of their ancestors peopled a continent on the planet Earth about 250 000 of your Earth years ago.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Yet Burzee has its inhabitants. Nature peopled it in the beginning with Fairies, Knooks, Ryls and Nymphs.
Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes.
noun
His people have been farmers for generations.
Are your people still alive?
The Spanish people.
Power to the people.

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