population
Nouns
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(n) the people who inhabit a territory or state
- the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
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(n) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
- they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
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(n) (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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(n) 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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(n) the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
- he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals