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portion is a noun and verb meaning "something determined in relation to something that includes it". It carries 8 recorded senses.
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”
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
“he wanted his share in cash”
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for portion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.