population

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the people who inhabit a territory or state
  2. noun a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
  3. noun (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.

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