Words · Very common
population
/ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən/ · 10 letters · 8 distinct letters
- noun
the people who inhabit a territory or state
the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
- noun
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
- noun
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
it is an estimate of the mean of the 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
- noun
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals