population.
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
Meaning & usage
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
The people with a given characteristic.
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
The town’s population is only 243.
population explosion; population growth
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world. The number of living cells in a pattern.
A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.
General population.
Where this word comes from
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.
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