populations
- 1Plural of population.
Urban populations have grown rapidly across the continent.
Conservationists track wild bird populations from year to year.
Note
A plural that only makes sense once the singular is split into separate groups. One country has a population; a continent's cities have populations, each counted on its own. Biologists use it for distinct groups of one species living in different areas, and statisticians for the separate sets from which samples are drawn. In both fields the plural signals that the groups are being kept apart, not merged into one.
populations is a form of population
population, noun: The people who live in a particular country, region, town, or other area, or the total number of them. Full entry
- Forms
- populationpopulations plural
- Spelling
- population → populations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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