Population Definition

pŏpyə-lāshən
populations
noun
populations
All the people in a country, region, etc.
Webster's New World
The number of these.
Webster's New World
A (specified) part of the people in a given area.
The Japanese population of Hawaii.
Webster's New World
The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
American Heritage Medicine
The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.
American Heritage Medicine
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Other Word Forms of Population

Noun

Singular:
population
Plural:
populations

Origin of Population

  • From Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus.

    From Wiktionary

Population Sentence Examples

  • The population of the nearest big city was growing.

  • Half the population of his planet had been decimated by famine and war.

  • By 2020, it is estimated that five billion people will be online, representing two-thirds the population of the planet.

  • The large majority of the population of the city is Roman Catholic.

  • The trouble is, my ranch has been a safe haven and even headquarters for the wolf population around here.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOP

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With P and Ending With N

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