population

Pronunciation: [.pɒpju'leiʃәn]

Average Rank: 2758

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 人口, 人口数 [化] 群体; 总体

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. the people who inhabit a territory or state
  • n. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
  • n. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
  • n. 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.)
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk cet4 cet6 ky ielts
Word Forms:
Plural: populations

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#232

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 97.7% (Top 97.7% most frequent)
97.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#6495

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 35.0% (Top 35.0% most frequent)
35.0%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#1546

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 84.5% (Top 84.5% most frequent)
84.5%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.

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