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English
Etymology
From un- + peopled.
Adjective
unpeopled (not comparable)
- Not inhabited by people.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 105:Still, one mansion, which the time ought to have unpeopled, was evidently inhabited; and in one of its rooms—small, but luxurious enough for a sultana in the Arabian Nights, or a young gentleman of the present day—were seated two persons in earnest conversation.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:I look out at the sunrise--that fateful sunrise which will shine upon an unpeopled world.
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