population
noun
[ pɒpjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n ]
• all the inhabitants of a particular place.
• "the island has a population of about 78,000"
Similar:
inhabitants,
residents,
people,
citizens,
citizenry,
public,
community,
populace,
society,
natives,
occupants,
occupiers,
folk,
common folk,
denizens,
• a community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs.
• "fluctuations in populations of voles and lemmings"
• a finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.
• each of three groups (designated I, II, and III) into which stars can be approximately divided on the basis of their manner of formation.
• "the motions of Population II objects"
Origin:
late 16th century (denoting an inhabited place): from late Latin populatio(n- ), from the verb populare, from populus ‘people’.
