peopling Definition

people
noun

1. A set or group of persons.
2. Men and women in general.

Thesaurus: humanity, humankind, the human race, mankind.
3. A body of persons held together by belief in common origin, speech, culture, political union, or by common leadership, etc.
4a. Ordinary citizens without special rank; the general populace;

Thesaurus: citizens, masses, the multitude, the majority, the public, common people, folk, rank and file, the horde, rabble.
Form: the people
4b. Denoting that the specified thing belongs or relates to the people, general populace, etc.

Example: people-power
Example: people-oriented
5. Voters as a body.

Form: the people
6. Subjects or supporters of a monarch, etc.
peoples
7. A nation or race.

Example: a warlike people
Thesaurus: race, nationality, extraction, tribe, clan, family, community.
8. colloq
One's parents, or the wider circle of one's relations.

verb peopled, peopling

1. To fill or supply (a region, etc) with people; to populate.

Thesaurus: inhabit, colonize, occupy, settle, populate.
2. To inhabit.

Idiom: of all people

Especially; more than anyone else.
Example: You, of all people, should know that

Very strangely or unexpectedly.
Example: chose me, of all people, as spokesperson

Etymology: 14c: from French poeple.