population vs settlement

settlement vs population

population and settlement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
population	Yes	No	No	No
settlement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, settlement is a hypernym of population; that is, settlement is a word with a broader meaning than population:

population: the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
settlement: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

Other hypernyms of population include colonisation, colonization.

population (noun)	settlement (noun)
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)	termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn	the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
the people who inhabit a territory or state	something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area	a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
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.)	a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
	a community of people smaller than a town
	an area where a group of families live together

Difference between population and settlement

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