population

Main Entry:
population [pop-yuh-ley-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inhabitants of a place
Synonyms: citizenry, community, culture, denizens, dwellers, folk, natives, people, populace, public, residents, society, state
Main Entry: nation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: country with its own government
Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, principality, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union
Notes: country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person'
a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically
Main Entry: people
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: human beings
Synonyms: John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe
Notes: people is a term equivalent to cows and horses - like a herd of humans; persons is used in regard to our external aspects and refers to a number of individuals
Antonyms: animals, plants
Main Entry: public
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: people of community; people interested in something
Synonyms: audience, bodies, buyers, citizens, clientele, commonalty, community, country, electorate, everyone, followers, following, heads, masses, men and women, mob, multitude, nation, patrons, people, populace, population, society, suite, supporters, voters
Main Entry: society
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: humankind, people
Synonyms: association, camaraderie, civilization, commonality, commonwealth, community, companionship, company, comradeship, culture, friendship, general public, humanity, jungle*, nation, population, public, rat race, social order, world, zoo
Related Words
Main Entry: society
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
a la mode, admissible in society, admitted in society, anthropocentric, antinuke, antisocial, apolitical, biracial, blue, civil, classless, conventional, courtly, dashing, de rigeur, designer, en grand tenue, fashionable, fast, focative, genteel, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, hard, homogeneous, horse, in full dress, indigenous, industrial, janty, jaunty, ladylike, life, lonely, modish, newfangled, nomothetic, old, polite, politically correct, presentable, pro, pronuclear, pschutt, psychosocial, refined, right, ritualistic, rural, semple, sexist, stylish, substandard, technetronic, thoroughbred, ticky, un, underdeveloped, underprivileged, unembarrassed, unfashionable, universal, unskilled, up, well, well
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