Population : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Population	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Population
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
population n the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed" a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" Synonym(s): population, universe 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" the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Population \Pop`ula"tion\, n. [L. populatio: cf. F. population.] 1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. 2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population* of ten millions.