Definition of POPULATION

population

Plural: populations

Noun

  • the people who inhabit a territory or state
    • "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
  • a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
    • "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
  • (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
    • "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
  • 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 African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"
  • the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
    • "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
  • The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
  • The people with a given characteristic.
  • A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
  • A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
  • The number of living cells in a pattern.
  • A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
  • A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
  • The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
  • General population.

Examples

  • A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
  • India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
  • John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.
  • population explosion; population growth
  • The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
  • The town’s population is only 243.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.

Synonyms

universe

Scrabble Score: 14

population: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
population: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
population: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

population: valid Words With Friends Word