population meaning and definition

POPULATION noun

Definition of population (noun)

1. the people who inhabit a territory or state
   • "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
2. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
   • "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
   • "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
   • synonyms: universe
4. 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.)
   • "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"
5. the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
   • "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"