population
/ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
noun
The people with a given characteristic.
noun
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
noun
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
noun
A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
noun
A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!"
- "“Panicology” considers the evidence on both sides of a large number of worries that have beset the industrialized world in modern times, including the “population crisis” (now one of underpopulation that threatens the wealth and health of aging populations in countries like Italy and Russia)[…]"
- "India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world."
- "The town’s population is only 243."
- "population explosion; population growth"
- "This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity."
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.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: populus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
stellar population
population dynamics
general population
ghost population
population biologist
population biology
population bomb
population bottleneck