POPULATION

PO ·PU ·LA ·TION 4 syllables

A2 · Elementary 📏 10 letters 🎲 Scrabble 14 ✅ valid word

Common in conversation and basic reading.

noun
  1. the people who inhabit a territory or state
  2. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
  3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
  4. 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.)

💬 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"
  • "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"

🔗 Similar words

universe
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