单词 | well-inhabited |
释义 | well-inhabitedadj. Densely populated, populous. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [adjective] > populous well-inhabited?a1425 populousc1425 well-peopleda1475 well-occupied1555 populate?1575 popular1588 well-populated1654 ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 125 This yle is full wel enhabyted. 1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §38. m. 7 Youre toune and havyn of Pole, is wele enhabited and manned. 1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 252 The Ilande of saynt Laurence..beinge well inhabited and of temperate ayer. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xvi. 17 The Bourg..[is] well inhabited. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iii. v. 158 In Eastmeath is Drogheda,..a faire and well inhabited Towne. 1695 tr. M. Misson New Voy. Italy II. xxvii. 161 Lucca is situated in the midst of a fertile Plain..and is surrounded with very rich and well-inhabited Hillocks. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. i. 40 At its foot a River and well-inhabited Plain. 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 30 Two well-inhabited islands. 1805 E. C. Knight Descr. Latium 4 Leaving a well-inhabited part of the town for one less salubrious. 1888 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 144/2 Some recent comparative analyses..of the air of sewers and that of the close rooms of some of the well-inhabited houses of the city. 1907 Geogr. Jrnl. 29 18 The district was well inhabited, the native tribes in the vicinity of the river and eastward being Shangaans. 1994 F. Karttunen Between Worlds iv. 253 The once well-inhabited forest had reverted to wilderness overrun by crashing packs of wild pigs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?a1425 |
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