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portion
[ pawr-shuhn, pohr- ]
noun
- a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it:
I read a portion of the manuscript.
Antonyms: whole
- an amount of food served for one person; serving; helping:
He took a large portion of spinach.
Synonyms: ration
- the part of a whole allotted to or belonging to a person or group; share.
- the part of an estate that goes to an heir or a next of kin.
Synonyms: inheritance
- Literary. something that is allotted to a person by God or fate.
- (especially formerly) the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband at marriage; dowry.
verb (used with object)
- to divide into or distribute in portions or shares (often followed by out ).
- to furnish with a portion, as with an inheritance or a dowry:
All of his children have been amply portioned.
Synonyms: endow
- to provide with a lot or fate:
She was portioned with sorrow throughout her life.
portion
/ ˈpɔːʃən /
noun
- a part of a whole; fraction
- a part allotted or belonging to a person or group
- an amount of food served to one person; helping
- law
- a share of property, esp one coming to a child from the estate of his parents
- the property given by a woman to her husband at marriage; dowry
- a person's lot or destiny
verb
- to divide up; share out
- to give a share to (a person); assign or allocate
- law to give a dowry or portion to (a person); endow
Derived Forms
- ˈportionless, adjective
Other Words From
- portion·a·ble adjective
- portion·less adjective
- re·portion verb (used with object)
- un·portion·a·ble adjective
- un·portioned adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of portion1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Counting encores, NBC estimated that over 44 million people had watched some portion of the production by the end of the month.
In the financing portion, the numbers are particularly bleak.
And its military destroyed a large portion of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
In 2000, the Israeli government simply closed the portion of downtown Hebron under its control.
But they can win back a portion of it, and in many states and congressional districts, a portion will be enough to change things.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.
Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.
First of all, wrap a portion of damp newspaper round the roots, and then tie up with dry paper.
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