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DEPOPULATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does depopulation mean?
• DEPOPULATION (noun)
The noun DEPOPULATION has 1 sense:
1. the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)
Familiarity information: DEPOPULATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("depopulation" is a kind of...):
environmental condition (the state of the environment)
Derivation:
depopulate (reduce in population)
Context examples
Birth rates were expanding right up to the depopulation.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
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