repeople
verb[T]
literary(alsore-people)uk/ˌriːˈpiː.pəl/usto go andlivein aplaceagain, or toencourageorcausepeopleto do this:
Timoleonwroteto the Corinthians,requestingthat theysendacolonyout of Greece to repeople Syracuse.
TheBibletellsus that Noah cameforthfrom the ark to re-people theearth.
Synonym
repopulate
- He made atreatyto end thewarandsoughtto re-people thedesertedtownsandreorganizetheadministrativesystemof thestate.
- At the end of thestory, theblazingworldisdestroyed,leavingonly asingleman and woman to re-people theearth.
- Hebelievedit was agloriousactionto repeople thestate.
- We need to re-peopleourpublicspaces, and one way of doing that isremovinggraffitiandhazards.
People who live or settle somewhere
- asylum seeker
- boarder
- brain drain
- city slicker
- co-resident
- frontiersman
- Georgian
- guest worker
- habitant
- illegal alien
- lodger
- occupier
- Orcadian
- outflow
- overspill
- returnee
- squatter
- villager
- welcome wagon
- year-rounder