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.