population
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
Noun 4 meanings
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
“The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!”
The people with a given characteristic.
“India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.”
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
“The town’s population is only 243.”
A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
“A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.”
Etymology
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.
POPULATION at a glance
POPULATION has 10 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (P 3 + O 1 + P 3 + U 1 + L 1 + A 1 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 19 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,017 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with population
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- COPULATION14
- PAPULATION14
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