DEPOPULATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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)

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