Population
[pɒpjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [,pɑpju'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of populating (causing to live in a place); 'he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals'.
(noun.) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; 'it is an estimate of the mean of the population'.
(noun.) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; 'they hired hunters to keep down the deer population'.
(noun.) the people who inhabit a territory or state; 'the population seemed to be well fed and clothed'.
(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'.
Edited by Everett--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
(n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inhabitants, persons, number of people.
Typist: Preston
Examples
- A little population occupied its halls. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The vital part of the population has pretty well emerged from any dumb acquiescence in constitutions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They seem to have been overrun and the population absorbed by the conquerors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Chief Butler, no doubt, reflected that the course of nature required the wealthy population to be kept up, on his account. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This demand they made to a population that subsisted almost entirely by overseas trade! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The population had either to fly or submit to the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It seems probable that in the Athenian population among all the Greek cities the pre-Aryan strain was unusually strong. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The trade in tobacco was enormous, considering the population to be supplied. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some of the European troops committed grave atrocities upon the Chinese civil population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And away went the coach up Whitechapel, to the admiration of the whole population of that pretty densely populated quarter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here for the first time the United States had real subject populations to deal with. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When, as in Macedonia, populations are mixed in a patchwork of villages and districts, the cantonal system is imperatively needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The populations over which Charles Martel and King Pepin ruled were at very different levels of civilization in different districts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now because of the Union of the Parliaments, the enfranchisement of the English and Irish populations went on simultaneously. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- How far they learnt and mingled their strain with the new European populations, and how far they went under we cannot yet guess. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They really believed that the vast populations of eastern Asia could be permanently subordinated to such a Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They dissolved into the surrounding populations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such men regarded alien populations abroad merely as unimported slaves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sometimes they were enlisted from friendly foreign populations in which the military spirit still prevailed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They had but an insecure hold on the Persian and Indian populations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By this time the enormous strain of the war was telling hardly upon all the European populations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In many modern states and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- By the sixth century A.D. the populations of Europe and North Africa had been stirred up like sediment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Marvin