population
NounUS[pop-yuh-ley-shuhn]/ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən/4 syllables
Synonyms:
universe
Open English WordNet
Noun (5)populations
- the people who inhabit a territory or state“the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”Type of peopleKinds home front
- a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area“they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”Type of group, groupingKinds overpopulation
- (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn“it is an estimate of the mean of the population”Synonyms: universeType of collection, aggregationKinds subpopulation
- 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”“the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing”Type of integer, whole number
- the act of populating (causing to live in a place)“he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals”Type of colonization, colonisation
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Translations
Noun people living in an area
- Spanish
- población
- French
- population
- German
- Bevölkerung
- Italian
- popolazione
- Portuguese
- população
- Turkish
- nüfus
- Russian
- населе́ние naselénije
- Arabic
- سُكَّان sukkān
- Chinese
- 人口 rénkǒu
- Japanese
- 人口 jinkō
24 more languages
- Dutch
- bevolking
- Polish
- ludność
- Swedish
- befolkning
- Greek
- πληθυσμός plithysmós
- Korean
- 인구 in'gu
- Indonesian
- populasi
- Vietnamese
- dân cư
- Hungarian
- lakosság
- Portuguese (PT)
- população
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 人口 rénkǒu
- Albanian
- popullsi
- Catalan
- població
- Czech
- populace
- Danish
- befolkning
- Esperanto
- loĝantaro
- Estonian
- elanikkond
- Finnish
- väestö
- Georgian
- მოსახლეობა mosaxleoba
- Hebrew
- אוכלוסין ukhlusín
- Icelandic
- mannfjöldi
- Norwegian
- befolkning
- Romanian
- populație
- Serbo-Croatian
- stanovništvo
- Yiddish
- באַפֿעלקערונג bafelkerung
Noun group of organisms (biology)
- French
- population
- German
- Population
- Portuguese
- população
- Russian
- популя́ция populjácija
- Chinese
- 种群 zhǒngqún
- Dutch
- bevolking
- Polish
- populacja
- Swedish
- population
- Hungarian
- populáció
- Portuguese (PT)
- população
6 more languages
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 種群 zhǒngqún
- Czech
- populace
- Danish
- population
- Finnish
- populaatio
- Norwegian
- bestand
- Welsh
- poblogaeth
Noun number of residents in a given area
- Spanish
- población
- German
- Bevölkerungszahl
- Portuguese
- população
- Turkish
- nüfus
- Russian
- населе́ние naselénije
- Chinese
- 人口 rénkǒu
- Japanese
- 人口 jinkō
- Dutch
- inwonertal
- Swedish
- folkmängd
- Korean
- 인구 in'gu
15 more languages
- Vietnamese
- dân số
- Hungarian
- népesség
- Portuguese (PT)
- população
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 人口 rénkǒu
- Albanian
- popullsi
- Czech
- populace
- Esperanto
- loĝantaro
- Estonian
- rahvaarv
- Finnish
- asukasluku
- Icelandic
- mannfjöldi
- Malagasy
- mponina
- Norwegian
- folketall
- Scottish Gaelic
- sluagh
- Welsh
- poblogaeth
- Yiddish
- באַפֿעלקערונג bafelkerung
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pop′u·la′tion noun
Origin: L. populatio: cf. F. population.
1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54