population
/pɒpjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
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American sound/pɒpjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
pɒpjʊˈleɪʃən
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- Final -tion sounds like shun
pɒpjʊ - ˈleɪʃən -> population
Myanmar meaning
(n) လူဦးရေ
Full entry
population /pɒpju'leÇʃn/ n
၁။ [CGp] (က) လူဦးရေ။ control population growth ❍ the ageing populations of Western European countries ❍ Muslims make up 55% of the population. ❍ What is the population of Ireland? ❍ a city with a population of over 10 million. (ခ) ဦးရေ။ the entire working population ❍ the immigrant population ❍ Iraq's civilian population.
၂။ [U] (လူဦးရေ) သိပ်သည်းမှု။ areas of dense/sparse population.
❏ population centre (US center) n လူအများစုဝေး နေထိုင်ရာနေရာ။ မြို့ကြီးပြကြီး။ The problem affects the main population centres, not the smaller towns.
❏ population explosion n လူဦးရေတစ်ဟုန်ထိုး တိုးပွားမှု။
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- Less than 40% of the population voted in the last election.
- [population of] : The ageing population of the US
- [population of] : Los Angeles has a population of over 3 million.
- [population growth] : Better health care and agriculture have led to rapid population growth.
- [a population explosion] : Pressures on natural resources will increase as we face a population explosion.
- California has a large Spanish-speaking population.
- Tanzania’s elephant population stands at about 55, 000.
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