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