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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun population has 5 senses
- population(n = noun.group) Array - the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed" is a kind of people
- population(n = noun.group) Array - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" is a kind of group, grouping
- population(n = noun.cognition) universe - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" has particulars: subpopulation
- population(n = noun.quantity) Array - 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" is a kind of integer, whole number
- population(n = noun.act) Array - the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals" is a kind of colonisation, colonization, settlement
has particulars: home front
Derived form verb populate1
has particulars: overpopulation
is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
Derived form verb populate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
population, n. [L. populatio: cf. F. population.].
- The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. [1913 Webster]
- The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
population, n.
1 a the inhabitants of a place, country, etc. referred to collectively. b any specified group within this (the Irish population of Liverpool).
2 the total number of any of these (a population of eight million; the seal population).
3 the act or process of supplying with inhabitants (the population of forest areas).
4 Statistics any finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.
1 a the inhabitants of a place, country, etc. referred to collectively. b any specified group within this (the Irish population of Liverpool).
2 the total number of any of these (a population of eight million; the seal population).
3 the act or process of supplying with inhabitants (the population of forest areas).
4 Statistics any finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.
Idiom
population explosion a sudden large increase of population.
Etymology
LL populatio (as PEOPLE)
THESAURUS
population
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Inhabitant
N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.Mankind
N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.
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