Definitions for population
ˌpɒp yəˈleɪ ʃənpop·u·la·tion

Princeton's WordNet(3.29 / 21 votes)Rate this definition:

1. populationnoun

   the people who inhabit a territory or state

   "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"

2. populationnoun

   a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

   "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"

3. population, universenoun

   (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

   "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"

4. populationnoun

   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"

5. populationnoun

   the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

   "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"

Wiktionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. populationnoun

   The people living within a political or geographical boundary

   The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!

2. populationnoun

   A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

3. populationnoun

   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

4. populationnoun

   A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn

5. populationnoun

   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.

6. Etymology: From populatio, as if a noun of action from Classical populus.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Populationnoun

   The state of a country with respect to numbers of people.

   Etymology: from populate.

   The population of a kingdom, especially if it be not mown down by wars, does not exceed the stock of the kingdom, which should maintain them; neither is the population to be reckoned, only by number; for a smaller number, that spend more and earn less, do wear out an estate sooner than a greater number, that live lower, and gather more. Francis Bacon.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Populationnoun

   the act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants

2. Populationnoun

   the whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions

3. Etymology: [L. populatio: cf. F. population.]

Freebase(4.15 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(2.50 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Population

   The total number of individuals inhabiting a particular region or area.

Editors Contribution(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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  

Matched Categories

1. • Collection
   • Colonization
   • Group
   • Integer
   • People
   • Statistics

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'population' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #729

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'population' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1496

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'population' in Nouns Frequency: #277

How to pronounce population?

1. Alex

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of population in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of population in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of population in a Sentence

1. Barry Popkin:

   It's a useful tool for those who are really educated and concerned, and has zero effect on the population most at need.

2. Guohua Li:

   Autistic children aged 14 years and younger are 40 times more likely to die from injury than the general pediatric population.

3. Vincent Thielke:

   One limitation of contact tracing is that the application is opt-in, and the requirement of additional effort may lead to contacts not being traced, but the idea is that contact tracing should allow for inferences about the broader population in areas where the opt-in base is sufficiently large enough.

4. Vladimir Putin:

   So, the liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population.

5. Christina Pagel:

   In the over-50s, in our vulnerable populations, we have 90 % to 95 % fully vaccinated. And that's making a really big difference. So we do have a lot of hospitalizations, but it's nowhere near as high as it could be, and if Christina Pagel look at places like Florida, which is seeing unsustainable hospitalizations, this is because they have a higher number of people who are still vulnerable, so even though they have high vaccination rates overall, it's not helping them as much because of how its distributed in their population.

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