Population Meaning
/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe people living within a political or geographical boundary.
nounThe people with a given characteristic.
Sentence Examples
By the year 2020, the population of our city will have doubled.
We debated on the question of world population.
The city's population has grown significantly over the last decade.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The city's ____ has grown rapidly due to immigration and high birth rates.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city's ____ has grown by twenty percent over the past decade due to migration and birth rates.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“Panicology” considers the evidence on both sides of a large number of worries that have beset the industrialized world in modern times, including the “population crisis” (now one of underpopulation that threatens the wealth and health of aging populations in countries like Italy and Russia)[…]"
— 2009 May 19, Jane E. Brody, “The Slippery Slope From Fear to Panic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2012:
"This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity."
— 1996 December 16, Dean Hickerson, “What is his name ?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
"Since unoccupied cells never send a message they never access their neighbors and so if the population of the arena is, say, 20% of the total area then 80% of time no neighbor cells need to be accessed at all leading 1/9th as many array accesses and computation speeds up to 9 times faster per generation."
— 2003 February 28, fiziwig, “Fast GOL alogrithm that doesn't examine neighbors.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
"End population was 101,764 cells, but with some significant spikes and drops along the way."
— 2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
"Within and among populations of grindelias, some morphologic traits appear to vary more from plant to plant than in most genera of composites."
— 2006, Flora of North America, North of Mexico:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The city's ____ has grown rapidly due to immigration and high birth rates.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city's ____ has grown by twenty percent over the past decade due to migration and birth rates.