population

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The number of people living in a place.

   The town's population is only 243.

2. 2
   noun

   All the people living in a particular area.

   Most of the population lives near the coast.

3. 3
   noun

   A group of animals or plants of the same kind in an area.

   They hired hunters to control the deer population.

4. 4
   noun

   In statistics, the whole set of items from which a sample is taken.

   The sample mean is an estimate of the population mean.

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.

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