(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ of a country or area is all the people who live in it.
Bangladesh now has a ~ of about 110 million.
...the annual rate of ~ growth.
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2.
If you refer to a particular type of ~ in a country or area, you are referring to all the people or animals of that type there. (FORMAL)
...75.6 per cent of the male ~ over sixteen.
...the elephant ~s of Tanzania and Kenya.
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