Main entry: portion, parcel, share
Definition: the allotment of some amount by dividing something
Usage: death gets more than its share of attention from theologians
Definition: something less than the whole of a human artifact
Usage: the rear part of the house; glue the two parts together
Main entry: serving, helping, portion
Definition: an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
Usage: the helpings were all small; his portion was larger than hers; there's enough for two servings each
Main entry: dower, dowery, dowry, portion
Definition: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Main entry: share, percentage, part, portion
Definition: assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
Usage: he wanted his share in cash
Main entry: part, portion, constituent, component, component part
Definition: something determined in relation to something that includes it
Usage: 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
Main entry: lot, luck, destiny, fate, fortune, portion, circumstances
Definition: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
Usage: 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
Main entry: assign, allot, portion
Definition: give out
Usage: We were assigned new uniforms