1. (a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants\; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.

2. (a.) Popular; famous.

3. (a.) Common; vulgar.

4. (a.) Numerous; in large number.

alive with bristling bursting close colonized compact crammed crawling crowded crowding dense empeopled firm full in profusion inhabited jam-packed jammed lavish legion multifarious multitudinal multitudinous numerous occupied overflowing packed peopled populated prodigal profuse proliferating prolific rife serried settled several solid studded sundry superabundant swarming teeming tenanted thick thick as hail thick with thick-coming thronged thronging various voluminous