portion
something determined in relation to something that includes it
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,153 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,207 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- something determined in relation to something that includes it also: part, component part, component, constituent he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himselfI read a portion of the manuscript
- something less than the whole of a human artifact also: part the rear part of the houseglue the two parts together
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something also: parcel, share death gets more than its share of attention from theologians
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group also: share, part, percentage he wanted his share in cash
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) also: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances whatever my fortune may bedeserved a better fate
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage also: dowry, dowery, dower
verb
- give out also: assign, allot We were assigned new uniforms
portion in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Now his process of pickling consisted in mixing a portion of prussic acid in milk.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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The very excess of her fright restored to Mme. Favoral a portion of her energy.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Some had made previous voyages to the West Indies, but the greater portion were new to that country.
Under Drake's Flag · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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She had no part in that portion of Lady Maria's life which was illumined by cousins who were marquises.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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A large portion of his poetry is devoted to the pleasures of gardening, the description of flowers, and the care of bees.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1