Populace vs. Population
Difference Between Populace and Population
Populacenoun
The common people of a nation.
Populationnoun
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!Populacenoun
The inhabitants of a nation.
Populationnoun
By extension, the people with a given characteristic.
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.Populacenoun
people in general considered as a whole;
he is a hero in the eyes of the publicPopulationnoun
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
The town’s population is only 243.population explosion;population growthPopulationnoun
(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.Populationnoun
(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
Populationnoun
(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.Populationnoun
the people who inhabit a territory or state;
the population seemed to be well fed and clothedPopulationnoun
a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;
they hired hunters to keep down the deer populationPopulationnoun
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;
it is an estimate of the mean of the populationPopulationnoun
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.);
people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decadethe African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasingPopulationnoun
the act of populating (causing to live in a place);
he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
