population
The people living within a political or geographical boundaryThe people living within a political or geographical boundary.
» What's the population of your city?
Яка кількість населення твого міста?
Meaning
8 sensesThe people living within a political or geographical boundary.
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
Bevölkerung
населе́ниеnaselénije
насе́ленняnasélennja
(broadly)The people with a given characteristic.
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
Bevölkerungszahl, Einwohnerzahl
населе́ниеnaselénije
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.
population explosion; population growth
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
The number of living cells in a pattern.
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.
Population
популя́цияpopuljácija
популя́ціяpopuljácija
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
Grundgesamtheit
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.
General population.
Examples
694 sentencesWhat's the population of your city?
Яка кількість населення твого міста? — Ahha
Tokyo has a population of over ten million.
Населення Токіо складає більш ніж 10 мільйонів чоловік. — deniko
ruНаселение Токио — более десяти миллионов человек. — marafon
The population of Japan is less than America.
Кількість населення в Японії менше ніж в Америці. — aandrusiak
ruНаселение Японии меньше, чем население США. — odexed
deJapan hat weniger Einwohner als Amerika. — samueldora
The population is increasing.
Населення збільшується. — triantafillou
ruНаселение увеличивается. — al_ex_an_der
The population of Japan is shrinking.
Населення Японії скорочується. — deniko
ruНаселение Японии сокращается. — Selena777
deDie Bevölkerungszahl von Japan ist rückläufig. — Esperantostern
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from ClBorrowed 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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Forms
plural: populationsSynonyms
1 synonyms- (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn:universe
Word family
44 related wordsCollocations
6 patterns- the population of
- a larger population
- larger population
- population of this
- world population
- what the population