名词

1. （某一国家或地区的）全体人民，人口
The population of a country or area is all the people who live in it.

2. （某一国家或地区某类人或动物的）总数
If you refer to a particular type of population in a country or area, you are referring to all the people or animals of that type there.

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

e.g. he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals

2. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

e.g. it is an estimate of the mean of the population

Synonym: universe

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

e.g. they hired hunters to keep down the deer population

4. the people who inhabit a territory or state

e.g. 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.)

e.g. 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