Added 9 October 2026
population
/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ noun
Latin root: populatio Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about population at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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The people who inhabit a territory or state.
the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
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A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area.
they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
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(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn.
it is an estimate of the mean of the population
Origin
Borrowed 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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