settlement vs population

population vs settlement

settlement and population both are nouns.

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

As nouns, population is a hyponym of settlement; that is, population is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than settlement:

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

settlement (noun)	population (noun)
termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities	the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies	(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making	the people who inhabit a territory or state
a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it	a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
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	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 community of people smaller than a town
an area where a group of families live together

Difference between settlement and population

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