'Population' definitions:
Definition of 'population'
(from WordNet)
noun
The people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
noun
A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
noun
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" [syn: population, universe]
noun
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"
noun
The act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
Definition of 'Population'
From: GCIDE
- Population \Pop`u*la"tion\, n. [L. populatio: cf. F. population.]
- 1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'population'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute magnitude,
- anchorage,
- Beehive,
- binary star,
- black hole,
- body politic,
- Cepheid variable,
- citizenry,
- citizens,
- colonization,
- common man,
- commonwealth,
- community,
- community at large,
- double star,
- dwarf star,
- empeoplement,
- establishment,
- estate,
- everybody,
- Everyman,
- everyman,
- everyone,
- everywoman,
- fixation,
- fixed star,
- folk,
- folks,
- foundation,
- general public,
- gentry,
- giant star,
- globular cluster,
- gravity star,
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram,
- Hyades,
- inauguration,
- inhabitants,
- inhabiting,
- initiation,
- installation,
- installment,
- investiture,
- John Doe,
- lodgment,
- magnitude,
- main sequence star,
- mass-luminosity law,
- men,
- Messier catalog,
- mooring,
- nation,
- nationality,
- neutron star,
- NGC,
- nova,
- open cluster,
- people,
- people in general,
- peoplement,
- peopling,
- persons,
- plantation,
- Pleiades,
- polity,
- populace,
- populations,
- public,
- Public,
- pulsar,
- quasar,
- quasi-stellar radio source,
- radio star,
- red giant star,
- relative magnitude,
- settlement,
- settling,
- Seven Sisters,
- sky atlas,
- society,
- spectrum-luminosity diagram,
- star,
- star catalog,
- star chart,
- star cloud,
- star cluster,
- state,
- stellar magnitude,
- supernova,
- variable star,
- white dwarf star,
- world,
- you and me