POPULATION

/ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən/ ► audio Scrabble 14 Words With Friends 19

Scrabble letter values: P3O1P3U1L1A1T1I1O1N1 = 14

Definition

  1. noun the people who inhabit a territory or state.
  2. noun a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area.
  3. noun (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn. — synonyms: universe
  4. 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.).
  5. noun the act of populating (causing to live in a place).

Examples

  • “the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
  • “they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
  • “it is an estimate of the mean of the population”

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