population

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noun

1. the people who inhabit a territory or state (Freq. 27)
- the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
• Derivationally related forms:
populate
• Hypernyms:
people
• Hyponyms:
home front
2. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area (Freq. 4)
- they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
• Hypernyms:
group, grouping
• Hyponyms:
overpopulation
3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn (Freq. 3)
- it is an estimate of the mean of the population
• Syn:
universe
• Topics:
statistics
• Hypernyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
• Hyponyms:
subpopulation
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.) (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Hypernyms:
integer, whole number
5. the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
- he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
• Derivationally related forms:
populate
• Hypernyms:
colonization, colonisation, settlement