Word of the Day:
population
What It Means
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
The people with a given characteristic.
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
Population in Context
““Panicology” considers the evidence on both sides of a large number of worries that have beset the industrialized world in modern times, including the “population crisis” (now one of underpopulation that threatens the wealth and health of aging populations in countries like Italy and Russia)[…]”
Did You Know?
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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