portion

Plural: portions

Noun

• something determined in relation to something that includes it
  • "I read a portion of the manuscript"
• something less than the whole of a human artifact
• the allotment of some amount by dividing something
• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
  • "success that was her portion"
• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
• an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
  • "his portion was larger than hers"
• An allocated amount.
• That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• One's fate; lot.
• The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• A wife's fortune; a dowry.

Verb

Verb Forms: portioned, portioning, portions

• To divide or distribute into shares or parts.
• give out
• To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Examples

• He had to portion out his high-value letters carefully to maximize his score.

Synonyms

allot, assign, circumstances, component, component part, constituent, destiny, dower, dowery, dowry, fate, fortune, helping, lot, luck, parcel, part, percentage, serving, share, apportion, bit, chance, chip, chunk, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, destin, divide, divide up, divvy, divvy up, doom, fatality, flake, fleak, foredoom, foreordination, fragment, hunk, kismet, lump, mammock, orlay, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck, weird, wyrd

Related Words

helping, proportion, serving

Anagrams of portion