What is "population" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does population mean in English? Meaning of population definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "population" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "population": the people who inhabit a territory or state

Noun

  • Meaning: the people who inhabit a territory or state
  • Example: the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
  • Synonyms: population
  • Hyponyms: home front
  • Hypernyms: people
  • Meaning of "population": a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

    Noun

  • Meaning: a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
  • Example: they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
  • Synonyms: population
  • Hyponyms: overpopulation
  • Hypernyms: group grouping
  • Meaning of "population": (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

    Noun

  • Meaning: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
  • Example: it is an estimate of the mean of the population
  • Synonyms: population universe
  • Hyponyms: subpopulation
  • Hypernyms: accumulation aggregation assemblage collection
  • Meaning of "population": 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.)

    Noun

  • Meaning: 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.)
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: population
  • Hypernyms: integer whole number
  • Meaning of "population": the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

    Noun

  • Meaning: the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
  • Example: he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
  • Synonyms: population
  • Hypernyms: colonisation colonization settlement
  • Synonyms:

    society, populace, people, community, culture, state, public, folk, denizens, citizenry, dwellers, residents, natives,

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    population in English: population
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