In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
POPULATION
population
(noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place); “he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals”
population, universe
(noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; “it is an estimate of the mean of the population”
population
(noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; “they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
population
(noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state; “the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
population
(noun) 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, 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
population (plural populations)
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
Source: Wiktionary
Pop`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. populatio: cf. F. population.]
1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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