Origin of average
Related Words for average
ordinary, regular, moderate, mediocre, median, standard, medium, general, mainstream, fair, familiar, plastic, common, middling, intermediate, humdrum, commonplace, garden, boilerplate, nowhereExamples from the Web for average
Contemporary Examples of average
Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern ArtAlec Kubas-Meyer
January 2, 2015
On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.
Average age ranges from 45 to 65, with her youngest client at 18 and the oldest in her 80s.
Ramos was 38—nearly two decades older than the average recruit.
All because Murthy believes that gun violence, which kills an average of 86 Americans every day, is a public health issue.
Historical Examples of average
The men are taller than the average, and the women, relatively, taller than the men.
I guess I could do it and get away with it as well as the average.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
They average about the same as they do in anything else, mostly good, I think.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
He's too blamed comprehensive for the average boy of my age.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
If he truly was the average age of the rest of the class there was nothing for him to be angry about.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter