POPULATION • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Population

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/pˌɑpjəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Population

noun

The people who inhabit a territory or state.

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

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn. Synonym: universe.

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.). "The African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"

The act of populating (causing to live in a place).

See more definitions of Population...

See images of 'Population'

Etymology of 'Population'

Related searches:

Population Commission

Share |

"Population" Quotes from Famous Books

... the population soon changed. At first the ordinary colonist predominated the kind of man who had hitherto led the simple life, in most cases that of a farmer. He was very often accompanied by his whole family. At that time many a farm, especially in the Eastern Province, must have been tenantless, or else ...

— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully

... and as fortunate an individual as anybody has ever been in all history. Why not let a little of it go out to the teacher of this child? Why not plan a little for her comfort and welfare and encouragement? It is her skill that is assimilating the children of our alien population. It is her strength that is lifting bodily each generation to the ever-advancing race levels. Her work must be the main source of the inspiration that will impel the race to further advancement. And yet when these half-million teachers who mean ...

— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley

... great Gulf States and South Carolina with their majority of Negro population will never agree to the arming of half ...

— A Man of the People - A Drama of Abraham Lincoln • Thomas Dixon

... of supply and distribution of the United States Sanitary Commission, though some with a wider field and a more wealthy population in that field have raised a larger amount of money or supplies, there was none which in so small and seemingly barren a district proved so efficient or accomplished so much as the "Soldiers' ...

— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett

... like this are not in any sense to be despised. If the population of London alone—taking it at two millions—were individually to contribute 1 shilling, 6 pence, the sum would amount to 150,000 pounds! Why, if everyone whose eye falls on this page—to descend ...

— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

More quotes...