depopulation

1. 1.

   the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)

   Broaderenvironmental condition

Other forms of depopulation

plural

depopulations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about depopulation

What does depopulation mean?

depopulation means "the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)".

How many syllables are in depopulation?

depopulation has 5 syllables: de-po-pu-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /dɪˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən/.

Is depopulation a common word?

depopulation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with depopulation?

65 words rhyme with depopulation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.