Population
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Population is a noun meaning The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
Meaning
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
More Meanings
- (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
- (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
- (prison) General population.
- (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
Example Sentences
The town’s population is only 243.
population explosion; population growth
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
Word Forms
- populations
- pop'n
Synonyms for population
Depending on context, synonyms include populating, universe.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include universe, populating, demography, demographics, demographical, demographic.
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