Definition of Portion

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Portion

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.

To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.

To endow with a portion or inheritance.

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Portion Quotations

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer

Portion Translations

portion in German is zuteilen
portion in Italian is pezzo, porzione
portion in Swedish is dela, del, portion

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