population
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the people who inhabit a territory or state
the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
Types & categories
- people hypernym
- home front hyponym
Related & opposite
- populate derivation
Sense 2 noun
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
Types & categories
- group hypernym
- overpopulation hyponym
Sense 3 noun
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
it is an estimate of the mean of the population
Types & categories
- collection hypernym
- subpopulation hyponym
Related & opposite
- statistics domain topic
Sense 4 noun
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
Types & categories
- integer hypernym
Sense 5 noun
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
Types & categories
- colonization hypernym
Related & opposite
- populate derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | populate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | people |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | home front |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | group |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | overpopulation |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | statistics |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | collection |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | subpopulation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | integer |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | populate |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | colonization |