'Portion' definitions:
Definition of 'portion'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: part, portion, component part, component, constituent]
noun
Something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" [syn: part, portion]
noun
The allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians" [syn: parcel, portion, share]
noun
Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" [syn: share, portion, part, percentage]
noun
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" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
noun
Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
noun
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" [syn: helping, portion, serving]
verb
Definition of 'Portion'
From: GCIDE
- Portion \Por"tion\, n. [F., from L. portio, akin to pars, partis, a part. See Part, n.]
- 1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. [1913 Webster]
- These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him! --Job xxvi. 14. [1913 Webster]
- Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate. [1913 Webster]
- The lord of that servant . . . will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. --Luke xii. 46. [1913 Webster]
- Man's portion is to die and rise again. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. --Luke xv. 12. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A wife's fortune; a dowry. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Division; share; parcel; quantity; allotment; dividend.
- Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Portion'
From: GCIDE
- Portion \Por"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Portioning.]
- 1. To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute. [1913 Webster]
- And portion to his tribes the wide domain. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To endow with a portion or inheritance. [1913 Webster]
- Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'portion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adjunct,
- administer,
- allocate,
- allocation,
- allot,
- allotment,
- allowance,
- amount,
- antepast,
- appanage,
- appointed lot,
- apportion,
- apportionment,
- assign,
- assignment,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- bag,
- bang,
- batch,
- beverage,
- big end,
- bigger half,
- bit,
- bite,
- bolt,
- book of fate,
- booster,
- booster dose,
- booster shot,
- break up,
- budget,
- bumper,
- bunch,
- carve,
- carve up,
- chunk,
- circumstance,
- clutch,
- coil,
- commission,
- component,
- consign,
- constellation,
- contingent,
- count,
- course,
- cover,
- cross section,
- cup,
- cut,
- cut up,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deck,
- dessert,
- destination,
- destiny,
- detachment,
- detail,
- dies funestis,
- disburse,
- dish,
- dispense,
- disperse,
- dispose,
- distribute,
- district,
- divide,
- divide into shares,
- divide up,
- divide with,
- dividend,
- division,
- divvy,
- divvy up,
- dole,
- dole out,
- doom,
- dose,
- dot,
- dower,
- dowry,
- draft,
- dram,
- drench,
- drink,
- dropping,
- drug packet,
- end,
- endowment,
- entree,
- entremets,
- equal share,
- fatality,
- fate,
- fix,
- foredoom,
- fortune,
- foundation,
- fraction,
- fragment,
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- future,
- give out,
- gob,
- group,
- gulp,
- guzzle,
- half,
- halver,
- heap,
- help,
- helping,
- hit,
- hunk,
- ides of March,
- inevitability,
- injection,
- installment,
- interest,
- investment,
- issue,
- item,
- jointure,
- kismet,
- lap,
- large amount,
- legal jointure,
- libation,
- lot,
- lump,
- mainlining,
- marriage portion,
- measure,
- measure out,
- meed,
- member,
- mess,
- mete,
- mete out,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- moira,
- morsel,
- narcotic shot,
- nip,
- number,
- overdose,
- pack,
- parcel,
- parcel out,
- part,
- particular,
- partition,
- pass around,
- pay out,
- peg,
- percentage,
- piece,
- place,
- planets,
- plate,
- platter,
- popping,
- portion out,
- potation,
- potion,
- proportion,
- prorate,
- pull,
- quadrant,
- quaff,
- quantity,
- quantum,
- quarter,
- quota,
- rake-off,
- random sample,
- ration,
- remainder,
- roll,
- run,
- sample,
- sampling,
- scrap,
- second helping,
- section,
- sector,
- segment,
- service,
- serving,
- settlement,
- share,
- share out,
- share with,
- shift,
- shot,
- sip,
- skin-popping,
- slice,
- slice the pie,
- slice up,
- sliver,
- slug,
- slurp,
- small amount,
- small share,
- snort,
- split,
- split up,
- spoon out,
- stake,
- stars,
- stock,
- strip,
- subdivide,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- subspecies,
- suck,
- sum,
- sup,
- swig,
- swill,
- thirds,
- tot,
- unlucky day,
- wedge,
- weird,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven,
- zone