Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) population (of a geographical region, a country, etc.)
  2. (feminine) town, village
  3. (Chile, feminine) a low to middle-class neighborhood, usually in the periphery of a city or borough; a slum
  4. (Philippines, feminine) a town center, or the barangay where one is located

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
po‧bla‧ción
Pronounced as (IPA)
/poblaˈθjon/
Etymology

Formed from poblar + -ción, or a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin populātiōnem from Latin populus (“people”).

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