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population

po·pu·la·tion

UK/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ US/ˌpɒp.juːˈleɪ.ʃən/ common

noun

1.

the people who inhabit a territory or state

  • “the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
2.

a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area

  • “they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
3.

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

  • “it is an estimate of the mean of the population”
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4.

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”
5.

the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

  • “he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals”

Origin

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.

Phrases

  • stellar population

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