Populace vs. Population
Populace and Population Definitions
Populace
The general public; the masses.
Population
All of the people inhabiting a specified area.
Populace
A population.
Population
The total number of such people.
Populace
The common people of a nation.
The populace despised their ignorant leader.
Population
The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
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Populace
The inhabitants of a nation.
Population
The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.
Populace
The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, - comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
To . . . calm the peers and please the populace.
They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces.
Population
(Ecology) All the organisms of a given species interacting in a specified area.
Populace
People in general considered as a whole;
He is a hero in the eyes of the public
Population
(Statistics) The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.
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Population
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
Population
(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
Population
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 growth
Population
(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.
Population
(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
Population
(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.
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Population
The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
Population
The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
Population
The people who inhabit a territory or state;
The population seemed to be well fed and clothed
Population
A group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;
They hired hunters to keep down the deer population
Population
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;
It is an estimate of the mean of the population
Population
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 decade
The African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing
Population
The act of populating (causing to live in a place);
He deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
