Synonyms:
population
Meaning: the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
Synonyms:
population
Meaning: a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
Synonyms:
population, universe
Meaning: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
Synonyms:
population
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
The population meantime doubled.
A third of the population had moved away.
The population was small, educated, intelligent.
The rate of increase of population is slackening.
In South Carolina they formed almost two-thirds of the population.
One half of the male population of Missouri was trying to kill the other half.
Gardens and groves replaced the fields, and the free population fled to the towns.
The population of this great country is only a little more than that of the state of Iowa.
In commencing electioneering, he cultivated the farming population and their ways and diction.
Wherever they passed they not merely plundered to right and left, but slew off the whole population.