Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: population
IPA transcription: [p,ɑpjəl'eɪʃən]
Pronunciations of population
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noun meaning of the word
  • 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.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Oldham, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Canada, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Namibia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Waterfall Gully, South Australia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Evolution, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fin whale, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Baie-Johan-Beetz, Quebec, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Humpback whale, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Harvey Milk, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Execution by elephant, License CC BY-SA 4.0