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Noun population has 5 senses

population - the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
--₁ is a kind of people
--₁ has particulars: home front
Derived form: verb populate₁
population - a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
--₂ is a kind of group, grouping
--₂ has particulars: overpopulation, overspill
population, universe - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
--₃ is a kind of collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
--₃ has particulars: subpopulation
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"
--₄ is a kind of integer, whole number
population - the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
--₅ is a kind of colonization, colonisation, settlement

Derived form: verb populate₂