Synonyms for population
ˌpɒp yəˈleɪ ʃənpop·u·la·tion

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1. population

   A community is in general terms the aggregate of persons inhabiting any territory in common and viewed as having common interests; a commonwealth is such a body of persons having a common government, especially a republican government; as, the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A community may be very small; a commonwealth is ordinarily of considerable extent. A people is the aggregate of any public community, either in distinction from their rulers or as including them; a race is a division of mankind in the line of origin and ancestry; the people of the United States includes members of almost every race. The use of people as signifying persons collectively, as in the statement "The hall was full of people," has been severely criticized, but is old and accepted English, and may fitly be classed as idiomatic, and often better than persons, by reason of its collectivism. As Dean Alford suggests, it would make a strange transformation of the old hymn "All people that on earth do dwell" to sing "All persons that on earth do dwell." A state is an organized political community considered in its corporate capacity as "a body politic and corporate;" as, a legislative act is the act of the state; every citizen is entitled to the protection of the state. A nation is an organized political community considered with reference to the persons composing it as having certain definite boundaries, a definite number of citizens, etc. The members of a people are referred to as persons or individuals; the individual members of a state or nation are called citizens or subjects. The population of a country is simply the aggregate of persons residing within its borders, without reference to race, organization, or allegiance; unnaturalized residents form part of the population, but not of the nation, possessing none of the rights and being subject to none of the duties of citizens. In American usage State signifies one commonwealth of the federal union known as the United States. Tribe is now almost wholly applied to rude peoples with very imperfect political organization; as, the Indian tribes; nomadic tribes. Compare MOB.

   Synonyms:
   commonwealth, community, nation, people, race, state, tribe

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1. populationnoun

   the people who inhabit a territory or state

   "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"

   Synonyms:
   universe

2. populationnoun

   a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

   "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"

   Synonyms:
   universe

3. population, universenoun

   (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

   "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"

   Synonyms:
   cosmos, existence, macrocosm, creation, world, universe, universe of discourse

4. populationnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   universe

5. populationnoun

   the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

   "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"

   Synonyms:
   universe

Matched Categories

1. • Collection
   • Colonization
   • Group
   • Integer
   • People
   • Statistics

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1. populationnoun

   Synonyms:
   inhabitants, persons, number of people

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. populationnoun

   Synonyms:
   inhabitants

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1. List of paraphrases for "population":

   populations, demographic, people, residents, inhabitants, populace, población, public, demography, peoples, canadians, population-based, demographics

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1. Salvador Perez-Moreno:

   The loss of work and reduction of wages is concentrated among adults living with children. Therefore children run a greater chance of being poor than other sectors of the population.

2. Pedro Figueira:

   This achievement is extremely important, it shows that the radial velocity technique has the potential to unveil a population of light planets, like our own, that are expected to be the most abundant in our galaxy and that can potentially host life as we know it.

3. Kellyanne Conway:

   I find it petty and partisan and completely unhelpful to the American population to have a former vice president, who was here for eight years, in his bunker in Wilmington just lobbing criticisms, reading from prepared notes and not that well.

4. David Curry:

   The stated purpose [ of ISIS ] to eliminate and force the Christians and Yazidi people out of the region, they are succeeding. The Christian population in the region has greatly diminished.

5. Hilary Jericho:

   The current recommendations are that all first-degree relatives get tested, and the reason for that is that all first-degree relatives do have slightly higher risk than the general population, we recommend screening because celiac disease is one of the most variable or diversely presenting diseases you will ever come across.