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Words with a similar base: population

'population'

[population.n.01] as in: the people who inhabit a territory or state

Examples:
the population seemed to be well fed and clothed

'population'

[population.n.02] as in: a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

Examples:
they hired hunters to keep down the deer population

'population'

[population.n.03] as in: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

Examples:
it is an estimate of the mean of the population

'population'

[population.n.04] as in: 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.)

Examples:
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

'population'

[population.n.05] as in: the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

Examples:
he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals

Origins

					population (English)
└── populatio (Latin)
    ├── populare (Latin)
    │   └── populus (Latin)
    └── populor (Latin)