English noun: population | |||
1. | population (group) the people who inhabit a territory or state | ||
Samples | The population seemed to be well fed and clothed. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | people | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | home front | ||
2. | population (group) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | ||
Samples | They hired hunters to keep down the deer population. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | group, grouping | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | overpopulation | ||
3. | population (cognition) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | ||
Samples | It is an estimate of the mean of the population. | ||
Synonyms | universe | ||
Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | subpopulation | ||
Domain category | statistics | ||
4. | population (quantity) 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.) | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | integer, whole number | ||
5. | population (act) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | ||
Samples | He deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | colonisation, colonization, settlement | ||