population

Meaning

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
2. (broadly) The people with a given characteristic.
3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
4. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
5. A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
6. A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
7. The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
8. General population.

Synonyms

people

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inhabitants

populace

universe

citizens

masses

residents

aggregate

citizen

citizenry

colonization

group

inhabitant

settlement

contention

crowds

dweller

dwellers

form

gang

ecological association

head

heel

hull

particle population

clinch

base

millions

multitude

number

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bank

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attitude

populations

position

residency

resident

association

inhabitans

stance

stub

universal set

amount

view

number of inhabitants

number of people

parent set

houses and inhabitants

population size

number of individuals

demography

Translations

population

población

popolazione

população

Bevölkerung

bevolking

πληθυσμός

Population

població

سكان

populatie

Einwohnerzahl

Einwohnerschaft

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

The next day , the entire population was ordered to evacuate the city .

It led to a large exodus of the city , with a majority of the population leaving .

Enniskillen is the county town and largest in both size and population .

Five percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race .

The Spanish Civil War broke this development , and the city's population decreased .