(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively | the act of populating (causing to live in a place) |
the body of citizens of a state or country | (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn |
members of a family line | the people who inhabit a territory or state |
the common people generally | a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area |
| 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.) |