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say it: di-pah-pyuh-LAY-shuhn
depopulation is a noun meaning "the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)". It is pronounced /dɪˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən/ — di-pah-pyuh-LAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for depopulation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.