The word "populate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to fill a place or an area with people or animals. It can be used in many contexts. For example: The city council is working to populate the downtown area with new businesses.
It consists of 144 sprucewood columns that mark out and populate Mies's steel-and-glass pavilion.
Amoy Gardens is a cluster of 19 tower blocks in Hong Kong, home to no fewer than 19,000 people – enough to populate several rural villages.
Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin's pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.
But, in a country notorious for the scantily clad showgirls who came to populate television screens during Silvio Berlusconi's era of huge political and media power, the symbolic nature of the move was clear.
Told from Hitler's perspective, an encounter with a female stagehand is a fine example of the kind of awkward social interactions that populate the text.
WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind.
On unemployment and the stagnant economy, he appeared to suggest a return to central planning, with ambitious schemes to populate the desert and to create jobs with government loans.
As most Africans now live in cities, many youngsters grow up without ever seeing the lions, snakes and elephants that populate their folk legends.
Perhaps most crucially, it has led talented, accomplished, moral and charismatic people to abandon the political arena to the mediocre, unimaginative and uncharismatic people who currently populate it.There are 12 parties in the current Knesset, and over 140 have sat in its plenum in the past six decades, many of them one-hit wonders formed for bargaining purposes.
In second-hand-car finance, for instance, none of the banks or specialist finance companies that populate the market has a market share in double figures.
The end result is not a single, hybrid device, but a bewildering array of devices that populate the entire spectrum between phone and PDA.
