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

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.