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English to English noun
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the people who inhabit a territory or state |  | Example: the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
source: wordnet30
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a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | | Example: they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
source: wordnet30
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(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | | Example: it is an estimate of the mean of the population
source: wordnet30
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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.) | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | | Example: he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
source: wordnet30
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The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. | | source: webster1913
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