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population

/ population /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
"he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
Type of:
colonization colonisation settlement
Derived:
people populate
noun Sense 2
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
"it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
Type of:
collection aggregation accumulation
Kinds of:
subpopulation
Domain:
statistics
noun Sense 3
a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area
"they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
Type of:
group grouping
Kinds of:
overpopulation overspill
noun Sense 4
the people who inhabit a territory or state
"the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
Type of:
people
Kinds of:
home front
Derived:
dwell shack reside live inhabit
noun Sense 5
the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)
"people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"
"the Af"
Type of:
integer whole number
Semantic Complexity
93%
Sense Count
5
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
22
Times Searched
2
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Related Words

colonization colonisation settlement collection aggregation accumulation subpopulation group grouping overpopulation overspill people