portion

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 36.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An allocated amount.
2. noun That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
3. noun One's fate; lot.
4. noun The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
5. noun A wife's fortune; a dowry.
6. verb To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
7. verb To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Similar words

share allot assign component part serving lot destiny fate luck

Often followed by

of is in and thereof to which was or

Word family

portioned portioning portions