population
(noun)
noun
1. the people who inhabit a territory or state
- the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
Definition categories: group, people
2. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
- they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
Definition categories: group, grouping
3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
- it is an estimate of the mean of the population
Similar word(s): universe
Definition categories: thought, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
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
Definition categories: quantity, integer
5. the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
- he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
Definition categories: act, colonisation, colonization, settlement
Sentences with population as a noun:
- The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
- India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
- The town’s population is only 243.
- population explosion;
- A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.