the people who inhabit a territory or state; the population seemed to be well fed and clothed'

a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; they hired hunters to keep down the deer population'

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; it is an estimate of the mean of the population

[ Syn: universe ]

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'

the act of populating (causing to live in a place); he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals'