twenty-five percent

1. 1.

   one of four equal parts

   “a quarter of a pound”

   Synonymsone-fourthfourthone-quarterquarterfourth partquartern

   Broadercommon fraction

Questions about twenty-five percent

What does twenty-five percent mean?

twenty-five percent means "one of four equal parts".

What is another word for twenty-five percent?

Close synonyms include one-fourth, fourth, one-quarter, quarter, fourth part. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is twenty-five percent a common word?

twenty-five percent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.