What does population mean?
Definitions for population
ˌpɒp yəˈleɪ ʃənpop·u·la·tion
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word population.
Princeton's WordNet
population(noun)
the people who inhabit a territory or state
"the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
population(noun)
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
"they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
population, universe(noun)
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
"it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
population(noun)
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"
population(noun)
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
"he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
Wiktionary
population(Noun)
The people living within a political or geographical boundary
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
Etymology: From populatio, as if a noun of action from Classical populus.
population(Noun)
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
Etymology: From populatio, as if a noun of action from Classical populus.
population(Noun)
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
Etymology: From populatio, as if a noun of action from Classical populus.
population(Noun)
A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn
Etymology: From populatio, as if a noun of action from Classical populus.
population(Noun)
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.
Etymology: From populatio, as if a noun of action from Classical populus.
Webster Dictionary
Population(noun)
the act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants
Etymology: [L. populatio: cf. F. population.]
Population(noun)
the whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions
Etymology: [L. populatio: cf. F. population.]
Freebase
Population
A population is a summation of all the organisms of the same group or species, who live in the same geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding. In ecology the population of a certain species in a certain area is estimated using the Lincoln Index. The area that is used to define a sexual population is defined as the area where inter-breeding is potentially possible between any pair within the area. The probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of cross-breeding with individuals from other areas. Under normal conditions, breeding is substantially more common within the area than across the border. In sociology, population refers to a collection of human beings. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of human populations. This article refers mainly to human population.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Population
The total number of individuals inhabiting a particular region or area.
Editors Contribution
population
The number of people who live in a specific geographical area.
The population of the country is accurate.
Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'population' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #729
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'population' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1496
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'population' in Nouns Frequency: #277
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of population in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of population in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of population in a Sentence
If you are a patriot, if you love your country, you want the best for not only your current population but the future, you have got to take a look at the mistakes that we have made and there comes a time when we have to hand power over to those that will be living in the world they create.
We are trying to have a more complete count of unicorns in the local market, china has such a big economy, a huge population and a thriving new economy, it's hard to image it only has 80 to 90 unicorns.
There are two worlds in America -- and two worlds here in the state of Vermont, one of those worlds is the world of Richard Nixon, and the millionaires and billionaires Richard Nixon represents. This is the world of the 2 % of the population that owns one-third of the personally held wealth in America.
But despite each years ups and downs, the population in Washington has grown steadily and probably will keep increasing by expanding their range.
“Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes—to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale—a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.”
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- bevolkingAfrikaans
- سُكّان, سكانيةArabic
- əhaliAzerbaijani
- насе́льніцтваBelarusian
- населе́ниеBulgarian
- জনসংখ্যাBengali
- poblacióCatalan, Valencian
- obyvatelstvo, populaceCzech
- befolkningDanish
- Bevölkerung, Einwohnerzahl, Population, BevölkerungszahlGerman
- πληθυσμόςGreek
- loĝantaroEsperanto
- poblaciónSpanish
- elanikkond, populatsioon, elanike arv, asurkond, rahvastik, üldkogum, rahvaarvEstonian
- اهلیت, جمعیتPersian
- asukasluku, väkiluku, väestöFinnish
- fólkatalFaroese
- populationFrench
- poboaciónGalician
- אוכלוסין, אוכלוסייהHebrew
- जनसंख्या, आबादीHindi
- lakosságHungarian
- բնակչությունArmenian
- populasiIndonesian
- mannfjöldi, fólksfjöldi, íbúar, lýður, hópur, stofn, þýðiIcelandic
- popolazioneItalian
- 人口Japanese
- მოსახლეობაGeorgian
- халықKazakh
- ប្រជាភិវឌ្ឍន៍Khmer
- 인구, 人口Korean
- калкKyrgyz
- BevëlkerungLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ປະຊາກອນLao
- gyventojaiLithuanian
- iedzīvotājiLatvian
- tauporiMāori
- населе́ниеMacedonian
- ജനസംഖ്യMalayalam
- хүн амMongolian
- penduduk, populasiMalay
- လူဦးရေBurmese
- bevolking, populatie, inwonertalDutch
- ludnośćPolish
- populaçãoPortuguese
- populațieRomanian
- популя́ция, населе́ниеRussian
- stanovništvo, становништвоSerbo-Croatian
- populácia, obyvateľstvoSlovak
- prebivalstvoSlovene
- popullsisëAlbanian
- bestånd, invånarantal, befolkning, populationSwedish
- маскун, аҳолӣTajik
- ประชากรThai
- ilatTurkmen
- populasyonTagalog
- nüfusTurkish
- халыкTatar
- насе́ленняUkrainian
- آبادیUrdu
- xalq, aholi, nufusUzbek
- dân sốVietnamese
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