Noun

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