English Explanatory Dictionary

population

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
  2. The people with a given characteristic.
  3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
  4. The number of living cells in a pattern.
  5. A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
  6. A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
  7. The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
  8. General population.

Pronunciation

/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ /ˌpɒp.juːˈleɪ.ʃən/ /ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/ en-us-population.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Simplificationalizer-population.wav

Word forms

population populations pop'n

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.

Related words

popular populate populous

Derived words

populational populationally populationism populationless stellar population antipopulationist autopopulation coenopopulation depopulation hemipopulation heteropopulation infrapopulation interpopulation interpopulational intrapopulation intrapopulational megapopulation metapopulation micropopulation morphopopulation multipopulation multipopulational overpopulation paleopopulation population dynamics pseudopopulation repopulation subpopulation superpopulation suprapopulation transpopulation underpopulation general population ghost population population biologist population biology population bomb population bottleneck population density population genetics Population I Population II Population III population inversion population mean population pyramid zero population growth

Translations

Arabic: سُكَّانِيَّة Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܸܢܝܵܢܹ̈ܐ ܕܥܵܡܘܿܪܹ̈ܐ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܵܡܘܿܪܹ̈ܐ Armenian: բնակչություն Chinese Mandarin: 人口 Dutch: bevolking Dutch: inwonertal Estonian: rahvaarv Faroese: fólkatal Finnish: asukasluku Finnish: väkiluku German: Bevölkerungszahl German: Einwohnerzahl Hebrew: אוכלוסייה \ אֻכְלוּסִיָּה Hebrew: אוכלוסין \ אֻכְלוּסִין Hindi: जनसंख्या Hindi: मर्दुमशुमारी Hindi: जनगणना Hungarian: népesség Hungarian: lélekszám Japanese: 人口 Kazakh: халық саны Korean: 인구 Malay: penduduk Malay: populasi Malayalam: ജനസംഖ്യ Marathi: लोकसंख्या Northern Altai: калык-ньонныг тоозы Northern Altai: эл кӧби Northern Altai: улустынъ кӧби Norwegian Bokmål: folketall Norwegian Bokmål: innbyggertall Norwegian Bokmål: befolkningstall Norwegian Nynorsk: folketal Portuguese: população Russian: населе́ние Sicilian: pupulazziuni Spanish: población Swedish: folkmängd Swedish: befolkning Tamil: மக்கள்தொகை Tibetan: མི་འབོར Turkish: nüfus Vietnamese: dân số Vietnamese: số dân
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