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