Meaning of 'population'

noun

the act of populating - causing to live in a place

Example: "You deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals."

noun

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

Example: "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"

Synonyms: universe

noun

a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

Example: "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"

noun

the people who inhabit a territory or state

Example: "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.)

Example: "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"