Portion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PORTION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to divide into shares for distribution
• divide (something) into parts and share out
• serve (food) in an amount suitable for one person
• give a dowry to (a bride)
• To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
• To endow with a portion or inheritance.
• give out
• divide (something) into shares
NOUN:
• a part of a whole
• a part of something divided between people; a share
• an amount of food suitable for or served to one person
• the part or share of an estate given or descending by law to an heir.
• a dowry given to a bride at her marriage
• That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
• A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
• 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.
• A wife\'s fortune; a dowry.
• something determined in relation to something that includes it
• 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)
• 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
• part or share
• a person's destiny or lot

Words related to PORTION

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How to use PORTION in a sentence

• A week or two later the king was removed to another tower, and was only permitted to see his family during a certain portion of the day.
• The history of this last-mentioned portion of the nation is completely linked to that of the soil which they occupy.
• There remained to be conquered the southern portion of Turkestan, and chiefly the oasis of Akhal Tekke, which is contiguous to Persia.
• They led the eye onward to what was called the Arch of Triumph, separating this portion of the building from the transept and the tribune.
• The correspondent promptly sent the report and the item could only find place in the lower portion of page 7, normally reserved for routine and unimportant news items.
• His son, who follows the same occupation, possesses but a small portion of the art, having either never learned its true secret, or being incapable of putting it in practice.
• Behind the tree a goodly portion of the banquet was in readiness.
• They involved the abandonment of the separate position held by the Scottish Church, and its acceptance of a place as an integral portion of Roman Christianity.
• As Joan could not write, the only portion of this letter which bears the mark of her hand is the sign of the Cross placed at the left of those names at the top of the document.
• What portion of it could be justly credited to the farm was to be decided by comparative comforts after a year of experience.
• The cap, made of a fire-resisting substance, fits on to a tubular arrangement, R, fixed in the upper portion of the body of the burner.
• What individuals should compose this portion of the race, was determined from eternity beyond all contingencies.
• There were orders for goods to be hauled, but a great portion of what was demanded had not yet arrived by train from the coast side of the mountain range.
• If death was his portion, he longed for it to come cleanly in soldier fashion.
• Cavate lodges are distributed generally over the whole northern portion of the region here treated.
• They constitute, however, but a very small portion of the number included in the term.
• A vast portion of the persons present in the hall sympathized deeply with the supporters of Grant.
• The fifth and sixth cover the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, and a portion of the reign of Vespasian.
• Kelley, who spoke to a portion of the crowd from a wagon.
• Governor Jackson, with some two hundred and fifty to three hundred of the militia engaged in the action at Booneville, started toward the southwestern portion of the State.
• My brother, who disputed my right to the throne, reigns over a large portion of it.
• In cracking nuts a part of the kernel will usually drop right out, some times it is a large part, occasionally all, and sometimes it is but a small portion.
• The stone part is the upper portion of the eastern half.
• Is any portion of the structure erected by Edward the Confessor remaining? A.
• But, besides these, a portion of its waters has been conducted through the centre of the city, by means of a canal dug by the order of Jane of Navarre.
• An artist would have made much of that picture, for there was in this man, as in Strann, a singular portion of beauty.
• In fact, the greater portion of them determined to rebel, and assigned St.
• Like a picture it contains but a small portion of the career of those who have so long engaged your attention, and, I would fain hope, your sympathy.

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