Population (Noun)
Meaning 1
The people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 2
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".
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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
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Meaning 3
The act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 4
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 5
A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population".
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.