Definition of population

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Population (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions..

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Desert :: Desert (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation..
Colonizationist :: Colonizationist (n.) A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States..
Malthusianism :: Malthusianism (n.) The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.
Fractional :: Fractional (a.) Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population..
Vastation :: Vastation (n.) A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation.
Urban :: Urban (a.) Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population..
Inhabitation :: Inhabitation (n.) Population; inhabitants.
Population :: Population (n.) The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
Population :: Population (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions..
Criminology :: Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
Plant :: Plant (n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony..
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population..
Sparseness :: Sparseness (n.) The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population..
Depopulacy :: Depopulacy (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population.
Depopulation :: Depopulation (n.) The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants..
Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England..
Desert :: Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place..
Surplusage :: Surplus (a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words..
Lessen :: Lessen (a.) To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune..
Mortality :: Mortality (n.) The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming..
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