different between popularity vs population

English

Etymology

popular +? -ity, from Latin popularitas (“an effort to please the people”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?p.j??læ?.?.ti/

Noun

popularity (usually uncountable, plural popularities)

1. The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large

2. (archaic) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
   • 1600, Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of His Humour

     So this Gallant, labouring to avoid Popularity, falls into a habit of Affectation, Ten thousand times hatefuller than the former.

3. (archaic) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, The Colours or Good and Evil

     Popularities, and circumstances which […] sway the ordinary judgment.

4. (obsolete) The act of courting the favour of the people.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland, translator, Moralia, by Plutarch

     Cato (the younger) charged Muraena, and indicted him in open court for popularity and ambition.

5. (archaic) Public sentiment; general passion.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease.

Derived terms

• popularity contest

Translations

Further reading

• popularity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• popularity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?pj??le???n/
• IPA^(key): /p?pju??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

population (plural populations)

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

2. (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.

3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

4. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

5. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
   • 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.

     […] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.

6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Related terms

• popular
• populate
• populous

Translations

Danish

Noun

population

1. (statistics) population

Declension

See also

• stikprøve (“sample”)

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin popul?ti?, popul?ti?nem from Latin populus (“people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.py.la.sj??/

Noun

population f (plural populations)

1. A population

Related terms

• populaire
• populeux
• peuple

Further reading

• “population” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

population (plural populationes)

1. population