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population

noun
  1. the act of populating - causing to live in a place
    “You deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals.”
  2. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
    “it is an estimate of the mean of the population”
    universe
  3. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
    “they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
  4. the people who inhabit a territory or state
    “the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
  5. 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”