Definition of population

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Population (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions..

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Desert :: Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place..
People :: People (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity..
Plant :: Plant (n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony..
Inhabitation :: Inhabitation (n.) Population; inhabitants.
Concentrate :: Concentrate (v. i.) To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities..
Sparse :: Sparse (superl.) Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population..
Population :: Population (n.) The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
Sparseness :: Sparseness (n.) The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population..
Desert :: Desert (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation..
Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England..
Fractional :: Fractional (a.) Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population..
Population :: Population (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions..
Urban :: Urban (a.) Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population..
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population..
Criminology :: Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
Repopulation :: Repopulation (n.) The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
Desolation :: Desolation (n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Felonry :: Felonry (n.) A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony..
Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..
Surplusage :: Surplus (a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words..
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