Malthus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Middle English.
  2. Ellipsis of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.

Word forms

Malthus

Etymology

Compare Malthouse.

Derived words

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