portion
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (7)portions
- something determined in relation to something that includes it“he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself”“I read a portion of the manuscript”“the smaller component is hard to reach”“the animal constituent of plankton”Synonyms: partcomponent partcomponentconstituentType of relationKinds remainder, item, detail, substance, unit, member, language unit, subpart, butt, basisPart of meronymy, part to whole relation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact“the rear part of the house”“glue the two parts together”Synonyms: partType of object, physical objectKinds piece, component, section, fraction, hub, bulb, wreckage, cutout, butt, neck +18 morePart of whole, unit
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something“death gets more than its share of attention from theologians”Synonyms: parcelshareType of allotment, apportionment
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group“he wanted his share in cash”Synonyms: sharepartpercentageType of assetsKinds allotment, interest, slice, allowance, profit sharing, cut, ration, dole, tranche, way +2 morePart of net income, net
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)“whatever my fortune may be”“deserved a better fate”“has a happy lot”“the luck of the Irish”“a victim of circumstances”“success that was her portion”Synonyms: fortunedestinyfatelucklotcircumstancesType of conditionKinds good fortune, misfortune, failure, providence
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriageSynonyms: dowrydowerydowerType of gift
- an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal“the helpings were all small”“his portion was larger than hers”“there's enough for two servings each”Synonyms: helpingserving
Verb (1)portions, portioned, portioning
- give out“We were assigned new uniforms”Synonyms: assignallotMore general distribute, administerMore specific allow, allocate
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Translations
Noun allocated amount
- Spanish
- porción
- French
- portion
- German
- Portion
- Italian
- porzione
- Portuguese
- porção
- Turkish
- pay
- Russian
- по́рция pórcija
- Arabic
- حِصَّة ḥiṣṣa
- Chinese
- 部分 bùfen
- Japanese
- 分け前 wakemae
24 more languages
- Dutch
- portie
- Polish
- porcja
- Swedish
- portion
- Greek
- μερίδα merída
- Korean
- 일부 ilbu
- Indonesian
- porsi
- Vietnamese
- phần
- Hungarian
- adag
- Portuguese (PT)
- porção
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 部分 bùfen
- Albanian
- pjesë
- Catalan
- porció
- Czech
- část
- Danish
- del
- Esperanto
- parto
- Finnish
- annos
- Georgian
- ულუფა ulupa
- Latvian
- daļa
- Lithuanian
- dalis
- Norwegian
- porsjon
- Romanian
- porție
- Slovak
- časť
- Slovenian
- del
- Swahili
- hisa
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., from L. portio, akin to pars, partis, a part. See Part, noun
1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him!— Job xxvi. 14.
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.— Alfred Tennyson
3. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
The lord of that servant... will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.— Luke xii. 46.
Man's portion is to die and rise again.— John Keble
4. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.— Luke xv. 12.
5. A wife's fortune; a dowry. William Shakespeare
Synonyms: Division; share; parcel; quantity; allotment; dividend. — Portion, Part. Part is generic, having a simple reference to some whole. Portion has the additional idea of such a division as bears reference to an individual, or is allotted to some object; as, a portion of one's time; a portion of Scripture.
1. To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
And portion to his tribes the wide domain.— Alexander Pope
2. To endow with a portion or inheritance.
Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.— Alexander Pope
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54