[
  {
    "word": "population",
    "phonetic": "/\u02ccp\u0252pj\u028a\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u0259n/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02ccp\u0252pj\u028a\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u0259n/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/p\u0252pju\u02d0\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u0259n/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/population-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1661685",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The people living within a political or geographical boundary.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The town\u2019s population is only 243."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/population"
    ]
  }
]