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Definition: Population |
PopulationNoun1. The people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed". 2. A group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population". 3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population". 4. The number of inhabitants 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". 5. The act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "population" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Population \Pop`u*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression populatio: compare to the French expression population.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | In statistical usage, any definite class of individuals or objects. Also called universe. Compare sample. (references) |
Avian | A group of coexisting (conspecific) individuals that interbreed if they are sexually reproductive (Sinclair 1989). (references) |
Census | All people, male and female, child and adult, living in a given geographic area. Related terms: Apportionment population, Resident population. (references) |
| All people living in a geographic area. (references) | |
Environment | A group of interbreeding organisms occupying a particular space; the number of humans or other living creatures in a designated area. (references) |
Health | A group or number of people living within a specified area or sharing similar characteristics (such as occupation or age). (references) |
Medicine | A group of individuals, sharing some features in common and living in a particular defined area, that is considered without regard to interrelationships among them. They may all belong to the same species, or to some taxonomic group, and the concept is used when describing phenomena that affect the group as a whole. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The totality of items under consideration. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | A set of all possible measurements. This is an ideal that can only be approached. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The aggregate of all units, finite or infinite, forming the subject of study. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Weather | Group of individual organisms of the same species living within a defined area. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For the use of the word population in statistics, see statistical population.
In the most common sense of the word, a population is the number of people, or organisms of a particular species, living in a geographic area.
Demography studies the size, age and sex structure, mortality, reproductive behaviour and growth of human populations. Other aspects are studied in sociology, economics and geography. Plant or animal populations are studied in biology and in particular, population biology, a branch of ecology, and population genetics.
In biology, population denotes a breeding group, whose members breed solely among themselves, for instance through physical isolation, though biologically they could breed with all members of the species or subspecies.
Population density measures the number of people or organisms per unit of area. Variants may express the population per unit of habitable, inhabited, productive (or potentially productive) or cultivated area.
A particular geographic area of land is said to have a carrying capacity, representing the maximum population which it can support. Some observers of human societies believe that the concept of carrying capacity also applies to human population, and that unchecked population growth can result in a Malthusian catastrophe. Others oppose this view.
Population may also mean the process of populating a geographic area, as by procreation or immigration.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Population."
Synonym: PopulationSynonym: universe (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Garrison, crew; population; people; (mankind); colony, settlement; household; mir. |
Mankind | People, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million. (commonalty); population. (inhabitant). |
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Screenplays | Given the nature of our indigenous population, I would suggest clothes. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) So, basically what you're saying is 95% of the population is undatable? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the entire population of the universe must also be zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) The population thought that Shinra would protect them. (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima) Ninety per cent of our population are lawyers. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Lyrics | Nobody stares at me and I'd love to hurt the population (Tucker's Town; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish) Control of population (Californication; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) | |
Clever | The latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population. (references; author: unknown) Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Pictured is a crowd scene of people walking outdoors. They are wearing light coats and jackets. Population studies tell much about how cancer is caused and how to prevent it. This photograph was in the NCI book "Decade of Discovery.". Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Line graph showing incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and non-type b invasive disease, per 100,000 population, United States, 1989-1996. Credit: CDC. |
 | Map showing AIDS Rates per 100,000 Population Reported in 1996, United States. Credit: CDC. |  | Nature's most powerful explosions, gamma-ray bursts, occur among the normal stellar population ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The Hubble telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy ... Credit: NASA. |  | Flooding of low-lying areas at Holland Cliffs Shores by extreme high tides. Land is being lost at a rate of 1" per year in the Chesapeake Bay region due to combination of sea level rise and subsidence caused by lowering water tables. As population grows, so does demand for fresh water causing further subsidence, making events such as this increasingly common. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Volunteers assist the Oyster Recovery Partnership in their effort to transplant oyster spat before the population is decimated by the Stylochus flatworm. Hatchery bags are stacked aboard the ROBERT LEE. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve White-tailed deer - Odocoileus virginianus. This common deer has its highest population density in Rhode Island on Prudence Island. The island supports a herd of approximately 300 individuals. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. McIntosh County is home to a large nesting population of wood storks. Considered an endangered species, wood storks frequent both estuarine and fresh water systems. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Multiple species visible - an unfished population of tropical reef fishes Predominantly Monotaxis sp., Grandoculis sp., and Scaridae sp Sparid, and mixed group of parrotfish species. Credit: Small World. |
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Thomas Robert Malthus | Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. |
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US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It shall be assisted by technical advisers chosen by it from among the local population. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | If the population of the English-speaking Commonwealths be added to that of the United States with all that such co-operation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The forest about the Abbey of Villiers concealed for several days and several nights all that scattered and distressed population. |
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Health | Each population is considered separately. (references) | |
First, a large segment of the population is aging. (references) | ||
ApoE3 is the most common in the general population. (references) | ||
Business | Mexico has an aging population. (references) | |
Argentina has a population of 36 million. (references) | ||
This equals 3.1 percent of Norway's population. (references) | ||
Children | Sierra Leone | National/Ethnic/Racial Minorities The country's population is ethnically diverse and consists of at least 13 ethnic groups. (references) |
Ghana | The dropout rate is decreasing, from 9.1 percent nationwide in 1998 to 8 percent in 1999; however, the school enrollment rate also has dropped slightly from 2.58 million in 1997 to 2.56 million in 1999. Overall enrollment probably is even lower, taking into account the country's almost 2.4 percent annual population growth. (references) | |
Yemen | These facilities are located in Sana'a, Ibb, and Taiz, and collectively are able to care for a population of about 300 persons. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iran | Baha'i, Christian, Zoroastrian, and Jewish communities constitute less than 1 percent of the population. (references) |
Bhutan | Since Tibetans effectively are the only refugee population seeking first asylum in the country, the issue of first asylum did not arise during the year. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Muslim groups claim that the Government has been reluctant to renovate mosques in areas in which there no longer is a Muslim population. (references) | |
Discrimination | Bhutan | It claims that ethnic Nepalese fill 22 percent of government jobs, which is slightly less than their proportion of the total population. (references) |
Bhutan | Bhutanese human rights groups active outside the country claim that ethnic Nepalese actually make up approximately 35 percent of the country's population and that the Government underreports their number. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | Internet and cellphone usage rates are among the highest in Europe and cable television reaches some 95 percent of the population. (references) |
Human Rights | Togo | In 2000 an estimated 50 percent of the prison population was pretrial detainees; there were no available statistics for the pretrial detainee population at year's end. (references) |
Chad | Throughout the year, members of the Tibesti rebellion reported that members of the army committed human rights abuses and killed suspected collaborators among the civilian population. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | Between 70 and 85 percent of the national prison population was awaiting trial; of these, about three-quarters were "prisoners without sentences," and the remainder had convictions under appeal. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Botswana | They are physically, linguistically, and culturally distinct from the rest of the population. (references) |
Canada | Aboriginal persons remain underrepresented in the work force, overrepresented on welfare rolls and in prison populations, and more susceptible to suicide and poverty than other population groups. (references) | |
Brunei | The 6 percent of the population that is composed of indigenous people long has been integrated into society, and enjoys the same rights as other citizens. (references) | |
Minorities | Finland | Immigrants account for 1.86 percent of the population. (references) |
Panama | Racial slurs directed at Asians are used openly among the general population, and substantial numbers of Panamanian-resident Chinese frequently are treated as second-class citizens. (references) | |
Bahamas | Unofficial estimates suggest that between 20 and 25 percent of the population are Haitians or citizens of Haitian descent, making them the largest and most visible ethnic minority in the islands. (references) | |
Political Economy | Brazil | By most measures -- geographic size, population, and gross economic product -- Brazil is South America's dominant country. (references) |
Algeria | Officially, about 30 percent of the working-age population is unemployed, and about 70 percent of persons under the age of 30 cannot find adequate employment. (references) | |
JAMAICA | Jamaica has a work force of 1.11 million, representing 61 percent of total population 14 years and over. (references) | |
Political Rights | Rwanda | The Legal and Constitutional Commission, charged with the preparation of a new Constitution, was established and its 12 members appointed in 2000. The percentage of women in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population; however, there are no laws that restrict the participation of women in the political process. (references) |
Taiwan | The proportion of legislative seats allocated to Aborigines is almost twice their percentage of the population. (references) | |
Niger | Reportedly 39 percent of the country's population participated in the election. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | The project aims at improving the living conditions of poorer and vulnerable groups of the population; empowering communities and vulnerable groups to address social needs: assisting reforms in social protection, health and education by creating models that target and provide services. (references) |
Italy | The result of the agreements reached between the EU members and the EEA members is an open trading area for most industrial products of 19 nations with an affluent population of 380 million. (references) | |
Canada | Military export permits are normally denied to countries representing a strategic threat to Canada or its allies: countries involved in or under imminent threat of hostilities; countries under UN sanction; or countries whose governments have a persistent record of serious human rights violations, unless there is no reasonable risk that the goods might be used against the civilian population. (references) | |
Travel | Zambia | HIV prevalence is very high in Zambia, with estimated rates of 30-40% of the adult population in urban areas. (references) |
Pakistan | Yellow taxis are available in most large and small population centers. (references) | |
Turkey | Language: The official language spoken by more than 90 percent of the population is Turkish. (references) | |
Women | Bangladesh | A report released by the U.N. Population Fund in September 2000 asserted that 47 percent of adult women report physical abuse by their male partner. (references) |
Senegal | Female genital mutilation (FGM), which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health, is not practiced by the country's largest ethnic group, the Wolofs (representing 43 percent of the population), but it is performed on girls belonging to some other ethnic groups. (references) | |
Togo | However, harsh economic conditions in rural areas, where most of the population lives, leave women with little time for activities other than domestic and agricultural fieldwork. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Malawi | Essential services are specified as services whose interruption would endanger the life, health, or personal safety of the whole or part of the population; they are determined by the Industrial Relations Court (IRC) upon application by the Minister of Labor. (references) |
Cuba | The military assigns some conscripts to the Youth Labor Army, where they serve a 2-year military service requirement working on farms that supply both the armed forces and the civilian population. (references) | |
Venezuela | The basic basket, which includes medical care, transportation, clothing, and housing, in addition to food, totaled $833 (625,000 bolivars) for August 2000. The Ministry of Labor has enforced minimum wage rates effectively in the formal sector of the economy, but about one-half of the population works in the informal sector where labor laws and protections generally are not enforced. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking. |
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Al Hunt | Joe Lieberman, of course, is the first person of Jewish faith to be on a national ticket. You have a very large Arab-American population in your area. |
Bob Barker | Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered. Good bye, everybody. |
John Kerry | Well, I'm very troubled by it. For the first few years, there was a sort of realignment because a lot of the veteran population had moved to the south and southwest of the country. So there was an initial redistribution. |
Rush Limbaugh | The entire world's population could fit into Texas! |
Ted Koppel | Texas is certainly one of the largest states in the country for prison population and in point of fact, there are even some prisoners who are being exported to Texas and are being warehoused in Texas because the Texans have really made an industry of it. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Our population advances with a celerity which, exceeding the most sanguine calculations, proportionally augments our strength and resources, and guarantees our future security. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Since that period a population of four millions has multiplied to twelve. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | Certain danger was foretold from the extension of our territory, the multiplication of States, and the increase of population. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Although severely damaged, the Japanese industrial and transportation systems have been able to insure at least a survival existence for the population. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Next to the pursuit of peace, the really greatest challenge to the human family is the race between food supply and population increase. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Some rural areas continue to lose population, as they have for the past several decades. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Japan, with a population only about half the size of ours, graduates from its universities more engineers than we do. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | With the student population at an all-time high, and record numbers of school buildings falling into disrepair, this has now become a serious national concern. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will cease persecution of its civilian population, including Shi'a, Sunnis, Kurds, Turkomans, and others, again as required by Security Council resolutions. |
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| "Population" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Population" is used about 13,167 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13,167 | 693 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "population": actual population ♦ adult population ♦ ageing of the population ♦ agricultural population ♦ alien population ♦ border population ♦ causing fear and alarm among the population ♦ Central Population Registers Office ♦ civilian population ♦ congestion of population ♦ contributing family workers,% of economically active population ♦ dairy cow population ♦ de facto population ♦ density of population ♦ earth population ♦ economically active population ♦ enumerated population ♦ farming population ♦ female population ♦ fishing population ♦ floating population ♦ foreign born population ♦ global population ♦ gradation of population ♦ group of the population ♦ hypothetical population ♦ increase of population ♦ infinite population ♦ island model of population genetics ♦ livestock population ♦ original population ♦ population center ♦ Population Characteristics ♦ population Commission ♦ population control ♦ population density ♦ population dynamics ♦ population equivalent ♦ population explosion ♦ population explotion ♦ population growth ♦ population in the largest city ♦ population increase ♦ population mean ♦ population per hospital bed ♦ population planning ♦ population pressure ♦ population profile ♦ population projection ♦ population pyramid ♦ population scientist ♦ population shift ♦ population statistics ♦ Population Surveillance ♦ present population ♦ prison population ♦ resident population ♦ rise in population ♦ Rural Population ♦ sexually compatible plant population ♦ site population factor ♦ stratum of the population ♦ Suburban Population ♦ superabundant population ♦ surplus population ♦ target population ♦ thinly scattered population ♦ threshold population ♦ tree population ♦ unpaid family workers,% of economically active population ♦ Urban Population ♦ working population ♦ world population. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "population": population-based, population-control, population-distribution, population-orientated, population-samples, population-that. | |
Ending with "population": over-population, sub-population. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
population | 1,567 | new population york | 86 |
world population | 864 | florida population | 79 |
city population | 502 | population of australia | 79 |
us population | 383 | earth population | 77 |
united state population | 333 | population toronto | 77 |
china population | 327 | 1.7 billion india population | 74 |
canada population | 219 | city population u.s | 74 |
us city population | 184 | population of country | 73 |
state population | 178 | population density | 71 |
california population | 150 | france population | 69 |
usa population | 135 | philippine population | 68 |
population statistics | 132 | chicago population | 65 |
population growth | 130 | population pyramid | 65 |
city new population york | 125 | population control | 61 |
india population | 122 | angeles los population | 61 |
u.s population | 121 | population census | 60 |
population texas | 96 | london population statistics | 59 |
mexico population | 93 | israel population | 58 |
london population | 92 | mexico city population | 58 |
japan population | 89 | brazil population | 56 |
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| Language | Translations for "population"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | bevolking. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | popullsi (citizenry, civilians, people), popullim, popullatë, popull (crowd, demos, folk, laity, nation, people, populace, public, race). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قطاع من السكان, سكان (inhabitance, people), عدد السكان, آهل بالسكان. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | население (people), заселване (colonization, location, plantation, settlement), поселване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 人口 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | populace, obyvatelstvo, celkový poèet obyvatel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | befolkning (peopling, populating of a region), population (mendelian population). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bevolking, populatie (mendelian population, universe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | loĝantaro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مردم (People), نفوس , تعدادمردم , سکنه (Habitancy, Populace), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Press, Society, Throng). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | populaatio (mendelian population, universe), perusjoukko (universe), mendelistinen populaatio (mendelian population). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | population (mendelian population). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | befolking. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bevölkerung (people, peopling, populace), Population (mendelian population), Einwohner (denizen, habitant, inhabitant, inhabitants, local, resident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πληθυσμός (mendelian population, universe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ישוב (consideration, settlement), אוכלוסי", אוכלוסים (large crowd, multitude of people), אכלוס. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | népesség (people), lakosság (flatness, people, populace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | jumlah penduduk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | popolazione (universe), populazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 人 (the number of people), 人口 (common talk), ポ"ュラー音楽 (American submarine, cross of a tomato and a potato, Polaris, Polaroid Camera, pomato, Pomeranian, poplar, poplin, popular music, popularism, popularity, pot-pourri), 母集団 (parent set), 戸戸 (each house, every house, houses and inhabitants), 戸々 (each house, every house, houses and inhabitants), 戸口 (door, houses and inhabitants), 住民 (citizens, inhabitants, residents), 個"群 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ポ"ュレーション , ぼしゅう " (parent set), "たいぐ", ""う (aloofness, arc light, bare existence, bare livelihood, dangerous place, houses and inhabitants, jaws of death, living on others, one's right-hand man, one's trusted henchman, subsistence, superiority, tiger's den), じゅうみ" (citizens, inhabitants, residents), じ""う (aloe, artificial, artificiality, common talk, human skill, human work, manmade), じ"とう (head of an army, the number of people). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 인구. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pobbyl (cottonwood, poplar, populace), pobble (community, congregation, folk, masses, people), earroo yn phobble. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | befolkning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | populashon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opulationpay população (many, populace, ruck). (various references) populare, populaţie, locuitori. (various references) народонаселение, заселение (settlement), жители. (various references) ceathairne (portion of population, yeomanry). (various references) populacija, stanovništvo (populace), naseljenost. (various references) población (city, demos, dwellers, folk, humanity, nation, people, town). (various references) befolkning (populace), folkmängd (crowd). (various references) nüfus. (various references) ilat. (various references) сукупність (altogether, collectivity, complex, summation), населення (people, populace), мешканці, заселення, популяція (composite). (various references) poblogaeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | frequentia. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | burhwaru. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "population": populational, populations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "population": depopulation, interpopulation, intrapopulation, overpopulation, repopulation, subpopulation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "population": depopulations, interpopulational, overpopulations, repopulations, subpopulations. (additional references) | |
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"Population" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: opulation, papulation, poblacion, poculation, poopulation, popperlation, populatin, populatio, populatioon, populatiosn, populaton, Populonia, popultation, poulation, propalation, propultion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "population" (pronounced pÄ'pyulā"shun) |
| 10 | p Ä' p y u l ā" sh u n | depopulation, overpopulation. |
| 8 | -p y u l ā" sh u n | manipulation, stipulation. |
| 7 | -y u l ā" sh u n | accumulation, articulation, calculation, coagulation, confabulation, deregulation, emulation, formulation, granulation, inoculation, miscalculation, overregulation, ovulation, recalculation, regulation, reregulation, simulation, speculation, stimulation, strangulation, tabulation, tribulation. |
| 6 | -u l ā" sh u n | adulation, annihilation, appellation, assimilation, cancellation, capitulation, compilation, congratulation, consolation, constellation, correlation, demodulation, desolation, distillation, elation, escalation, exhalation, extrapolation, fibrillation, gastrulation, inhalation, installation, insulation, isolation, jubilation, modulation, mutilation, oscillation, revelation, titillation, vacillation, ventilation, violation. |
| 5 | -l ā" sh u n | contemplation, deflation, dilation, disinflation, ejaculation, hyperinflation, inflation, legislation, reflation, relation, stagflation, translation, triangulation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, aspiration, assassination, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calibration, cannibalization, capitalization, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolidation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, elaboration, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, information, inhabitation, initiation, innovation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overvaluation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, stabilization, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, toleration, transformation, transillumination, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-o-o-p-p-t-u" | |
-2 letters: oppilant, optional, pupation. | |
-3 letters: appoint, nuptial, opuntia, outlain, outplan, platoon, unplait, utopian. | |
-4 letters: laptop, latino, lotion, option, paulin, plaint, pliant, pluton, pontil, poplin, potion, pulpit, talion, utopia. | |
-5 letters: aloin, inapt, input, lapin, lupin, nopal, notal, paint, palpi, panto, patin, patio, piano, pilau, pilot, pinot, pinta, pinto, pinup, pipal, piton, plain, plait, plant, poilu, point. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-o-o-p-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: populations. | |
+2 letters: depopulation, populational, repopulation. | |
+3 letters: depopulations, outpopulating, repopulations, subpopulation, suppositional. | |
+4 letters: overpopulating, overpopulation, popularization, subpopulations. | |
+5 letters: interpopulation, intrapopulation, overpopulations, popularizations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 70 75 6C 61 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .--. ..- .-.. .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110000 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o p u l a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0070 0075 006C 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818287786786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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