Hyphenation of population

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word population? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

pop-u-la-tion

Definitions of population:

1.
The people who inhabit a territory or state
The population seemed to be well fed and clothed
2.
A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
They hired hunters to keep down the deer population
3.
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
It is an estimate of the mean of the population
4.
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.)
People come and go
5.
But the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade
The African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing
6.
The act of populating (causing to live in a place)
He deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals

Synonyms of population:

noun people
noun group, grouping
noun universe, collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
noun integer, whole number
noun colonization, colonisation, settlement

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