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population
  1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
  2. By extension, the people with a given characteristic.
  3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
  4. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
  5. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
  6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The nation's population consists of people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures.”
      “The population of the city was studied extensively to understand the demographic trends and economic growth.”
      “When the SAT was normed, its population represented a small minority of college-bound white middle-class students.”
populist
  1. A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen)
  2. A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular
  3. A person who advocates democratic principles
populism
  1. (philosophy) A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.
  2. (derogatory) The practice of appealing to the interests of the common people.
  3. Examples:
    1. “But the elitism and the populism in this claim are less far apart than they might seem.”
      “He claims the lack of leadership in the business and political world is due to an obsession with populism, which is disenabling the whole system.”
      “It's fueled by a long legacy of anti-intellectualism and right-wing populism that focuses anger on liberal eggheads.”
populace
  1. The common people of a nation.
  2. The inhabitants of a nation.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He was also adept at promoting the scheme to the Australian populace by presenting it as a symbol of national pride.”
      “So long as the populace preserved republican virtues, Whigs saw hope in an emerging industrial nation.”
      “It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure.”
populator
  1. One who, or that which, populates.
populousness
  1. The quality of being populous.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The birds, with their various song, gave an air of populousness and animation to the grove.”
      “One was concerned with the relative populousness of the ancient and modern worlds and the other seven were contributions to what is now called economics.”
      “By degrees the populousness of this encampment began to produce its inconveniences.”
populacy
  1. Obsolete form of populace.
populosity
populations
  1. plural of population
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “So the spermatogonia of an endangered species could be kept preserved and used to produce male and female broodstock to help rebuild populations.”
      “African slaves were needed to replace Native American populations that had been decimated by European conquest.”
      “Great Britain holds important populations of grey seals, and rare bat species.”
populators
  1. plural of populator
populaces
  1. plural of populace
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Do I think that states will use whatever technology is available to control their own populaces?”
      “When this occurs, the victim becomes completely insane, and in large populaces, such as ours, riots and chaos ensue.”
      “Two populaces living under two extreme weather conditions virtually eradicated off the face of the globe.”
populisms
  1. plural of populism
populists
  1. plural of populist
  2. Examples:
    1. “The backlash against the theory of evolution resonated not only with religious fundamentalists, but also with political and economic populists.”
      “And the only parties fighting on specifically European issues are the the UK Independence party and other populists desperate to leave the union.”
      “The fact is that our Parliament is peopled largely by populists whose interest lies, so they say, in representing their voters.”
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