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# population

noun (a population, populations)

«population» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The number of people who live in a place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#m1)
2. All the people, or all the animals or plants of one kind, living in an area: the bee population. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#m2)
3. (maths, formal) The whole group you are studying in statistics. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#m3)

### In the lessons

In geography and maths lessons, populations of towns and countries are compared, rounded, added and put in order. In science, populations of animals grow or shrink. Phrases: population of, the world's population, population growth, a large population.

### Examples

- The population of our town is about 12 000. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#x1)
- The world's population is over eight billion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#x2)
- The bee population is falling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#x3)
- London has a bigger population than Dublin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#x4)
- Round the population to the nearest thousand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#x5)
- A rabbit population can grow very fast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#x6)
- Well, they spread the news through the village; the whole population assembled and swarmed into the graveyard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/#x7)

### Note

Usually countable, but «the population» is often treated as one group. Maths: populations are big numbers to read, round, compare and subtract («how many more people live in A than B»). «Populated» means having people in it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «population» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/population/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«population» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/population.html) on Mova free.