1 one part of sth larger:
a substantial / significant portion of the population * Only a small portion of the budget is spent on books. * The central portion of the bridge collapsed. * You give this portion of the ticket to the inspector and keep the other. * She could recite large portions of Shakespeare.
2 an amount of food that is large enough for one person:
a generous portion of meat * She cut the cake into six small portions. * You should eat several portions of fruit a day. * Do you serve children's portions? * This particular type of fish has less than 200 calories per portion.
3 [usuallysing.] a part of sth that is shared with other people:
You must accept a portion of the blame for this crisis.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for portion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is portion a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, portion is tagged as noun.
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