population Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun the people who inhabit a territory or state
   
   • the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
2. noun a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
   
   • they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
3. noun (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
   universe.
   
   • it is an estimate of the mean of the population
4. noun 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
5. noun the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
   
   • he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals

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