Population

Noun

 * 1)  The people living within a political or geographical boundary
 * The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
 * 1) The people living in a single place.
 * ''The population of some smalltowns is numbered in under four digits
 * 1)  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
 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn
 * "...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
 * 1)  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.

Derived terms

 * population explosion
 * population growth

Related terms

 * popular
 * populate
 * populous

Adjectives for Population
scattered; floating; indolent; communicative; teeming; wage-earning; bucolic; indus¬trious; curious; inflammable; resident; indigenous; migratory; proper; crowded; ancient; coming; stunted; haggard; lifeless; varied; predatory; sparse; strenuous; adventurous; squalid; turbulent; rebellious surplus; predominant; intractable; hostile miserable; swarming; aboriginal; motley much-slaughtered;  abstemious;   shifting enormous; nomadic; supplicating; homogeneous; submissive; sufficient; voting; dense; warlike; sluggish; energetic; active; wwk-less; rustic; animated; agricultural; urban.

Verbs for Population
control—; decimate—; harbor—; immunize —to; increase—; oppress—; scourge—; teem with—; —ascends; —decreases; —dwindles; —expands; —mounts.

Thesaurus
Beehive, Cepheid variable, Everyman, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hyades, John Doe, Messier catalog, NGC, Pleiades, Public, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, anchorage, binary star, black hole, body politic, citizenry, citizens, colonization, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, double star, dwarf star, empeoplement, establishment, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, fixation, fixed star, folk, folks, foundation, general public, gentry, giant star, globular cluster, gravity star, inauguration, inhabitants, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, lodgment, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, men, mooring, nation, nationality, neutron star, nova, open cluster, people, people in general, peoplement, peopling, persons, plantation, polity, populace, populations, public, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, relative magnitude, settlement, settling, 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

Etymology
From populatio:, as if a noun of action from Classical  populus:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: popullsisë
 * Arabic:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: elanikkond, rahvastik
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: אוכלוסייה,


 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: populasi
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 人口 (じんこう, jinkō)
 * Korean: 인구 (in-gu)
 * Ladino: ,
 * Malayalam: ജനസംഖ്യ (janasamkhya)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ประชากร
 * Vietnamese: dân số


 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: populatsioon, asurkond
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: אוכלוסיה,
 * Russian: популяция
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: (sakaníya)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: rahvaarv, elanike arv
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Bevölkerungszahl, Einwohnerzahl


 * Hebrew: אוכלוסיה,
 * Japanese: 人口 (じんこう, jinkō)
 * Malayalam: ജനസംഖ്യ (janasamkhya)
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , invånarantal


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: üldkogum, populatsioon


 * Swedish: population


 * : bevolking


 * : लोकसंख्या (loksankhyā)
 * : लोकसंख्या (loksankhyā)

Noun

 * 1) A population

Related terms

 * populaire
 * populeux