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Population

noun

The people who inhabit a territory or state.

A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area.

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn. Synonym: 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.). "The African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"

The act of populating (causing to live in a place).

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"Population" Quotes from Famous Books

... and waters—hearing their words at first-hand (more than all science ever taught)— The near contact, the dear dear mother so close—the twilight sky and the young tree-tops against it; The few needs, the exhilarated radiant life—the food and population question giving no more trouble; No hurry more, no striving one to over-ride the other: ... man the companion of Nature. Civilization behind him now—the wonderful stretch of the past; Continents, empires, religions, wars, ...

— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood

... James McGill, Montreal was a small town of from twelve to fifteen thousand inhabitants, and of these the large majority were French. Indeed, the whole province had but a scanty population. One-third of the houses were wooden huts. The town stretched out along the water-front in a series of narrow blocks and straggling streets. The trade with foreign countries was exceedingly small. The ...

— McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 • Cyrus Macmillan

... century had elapsed since the emigration, and with the growth of wealth and population changes had come. In March, John Leverett, who had long been the head of the high-church party, died, and the election of Simon Bradstreet as his successor was a triumph for the opposition. Great as the clerical influence still ...

— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams

... equally natural that the negro population of the South should at that time have been unusually restless. I have already mentioned the fact that during the Civil War the bulk of the slave population remained quietly at work on the plantations, except in districts touched by ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various

... if you give it time. It's got to make little channels and passages for itself, and of course it takes time to do that. It's like settling up a new country. Only a few pioneers come at first, and you have to wait for the population to flow in. This being a dry season, and the water in the ground a little sluggish on that account, it was a good while finding out where your well was. If I had happened along when you was talking about a well, I think I should have said to you that I knew a proverb which would about ...

— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton

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