/pɒpjʊˈleɪʃən/
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Translation
All the people who live in a place, or the number of people who live there.
Word origin
From Latin populus, meaning the people.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- populus
- English cognates
- popular, people
Examples
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Here "population" means the number of people living there.
Most .
Here it means the people themselves, as one group.
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The "world population" is everyone alive on Earth.
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