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Meaning of 'population' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Population [ n.]
- The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
- The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

Meaning of 'population' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . population [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
Example in sentence:
  • he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
Meaning (2):
- (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
Example in sentence:
  • it is an estimate of the mean of the population
Meaning (3):
- 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.)
Example in sentence:
  • 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
Meaning (4):
- the people who inhabit a territory or state
Example in sentence:
  • the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
Meaning (5):
- a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
Example in sentence:
  • they hired hunters to keep down the deer population

Nearby Words:

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