population, n.
(populations)
freq. cnt. 35
(populations)
freq. cnt. 35
the people who inhabit a territory or state
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 27 freq. cnt.: 27
population
sample sentences
"the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4
population
sample sentences
"they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
<noun.cognition> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3
population universe
sample sentences
"it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
hypernym
hyponym
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.)
<noun.quantity> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
population
sample sentences
"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"
semantic pointers
hypernym
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
<noun.act>
population
sample sentences
"he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym