Synonyms of peopled

peopled

verb

past tense of people

as in populated

to supply with inhabitants

a science-fiction novel about a mission to people Mars

Synonyms & Similar Words

• populated
• inhabited
• colonized
• settled
• moved (to)
• relocated (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• depopulated
• unpeopled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of peopled

Popular imagination dismissed her as one of the lonely and disappointed women in a cardigan who peopled her novels, her books discarded as conservative and constricting. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers’ remarkable debut novel tells a story of the American South, one set in Georgia and peopled with a cast of characters that exist in a rich, layered, and challenging reality. — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026

Today, this part of the South Side seems to be almost entirely peopled by Black families. — Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026

Ishaq has made a film peopled with women and boys who go beyond simple archetypes, setting joyful female solidarity against omnipresent conflict in a way designed to communicate with a broad demographic. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 May 2026

Hypocrisy, not rail spindles or dog poop, is top of the play’s agenda, and to poke around that subject the playwright has peopled his work with a collection of character types. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026

The paradox of this quartet of movies up for the new casting Oscar, all boldly peopled with nonprofessionals, is that this very practice has become professionalized. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026

Throughout Humphreys County and Hickman County, peopled gathered with their churches for support and comfort in the days after the tragedy. — Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025

The Master is the greatest of them all, a movie peopled by characters who are at once intensely human and also the stuff of otherworldly fables. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025