"percentage" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pəˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pɚˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/ [General-American], /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/ [Philippine, nonstandard] Audio: En-us-percentage.ogg [US] Forms: percentages [plural]
Etymology: From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate). Etymology templates: {{m|en|percent}} percent, {{der|en|la|per centum||for every hundred}} Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), {{suffix|en||age|pos2=suffix indicating a rate}} + -age (suffix indicating a rate) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} percentage (countable and uncountable, plural percentages)
  1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: centage Translations (part of a whole): النِّسْبَة الْمِئَوِيَّة (an-nisba l-miʔawiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), portzentaje (Basque), ehuneko (Basque), працэ́нт (pracént) [masculine] (Belarusian), адсо́так (adsótak) [masculine] (Belarusian), част (čast) [feminine] (Bulgarian), процент (procent) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ရာခိုင်နှုန်း (rahkuinghnun:) (Burmese), ခိုင်နှုန်း (hkuinghnun:) (Burmese), percentatge [masculine] (Catalan), 百分比 (bǎifēnbǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 百分率 (bǎifēnlǜ) (Chinese Mandarin), procento [neuter] (Czech), percentage [neuter] (Dutch), protsent (Estonian), prosenttiosuus (Finnish), prosentti (Finnish), prosenttiluku (Finnish), pourcentage [masculine] (French), porcentaxe (Galician), პროცენტი (ṗrocenṭi) (Georgian), Prozentsatz [masculine] (German), Hundertsatz [masculine] (German), Vomhundertsatz [masculine] (German), ποσοστό (posostó) [neuter] (Greek), εκατοστιαία αναλογία (ekatostiaía analogía) [feminine] (Greek), प्रतिशतता (pratiśattā) [feminine] (Hindi), procento (Ido), persentase (Indonesian), percentuale [feminine] (Italian), 百分率 (hyakubunritsu) (alt: ひゃくぶんりつ) (Japanese), パーセンテージ (pāsentēji) (Japanese), 百分比 (hyakubunhi) (alt: ひゃくぶんひ) (Japanese), ចំនួនភាគរយ (châmnuŏnphéakrôy) (Khmer), 백분율 (baekbunyul) (Korean), 백분비 (baekbunbi) (Korean), 퍼센티지 (peosentiji) (Korean), peratusan (Malay), ōrautanga (Maori), процент (procent) (Ossetian), procent [masculine] (Polish), percentagem [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), porcentagem [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), проце́нт (procént) [masculine] (Russian), проце́нтное отноше́ние (procéntnoje otnošénije) [neuter] (Russian), porcentaje [masculine] (Spanish), procentsats [common-gender] (Swedish), procenthalt [common-gender] (Swedish), andel [common-gender] (Swedish), kabahagdanan (Tagalog), อัตราร้อยละ (àt-dtraa-rɔ́ɔi-lá) (Thai), відсо́ток (vidsótok) (Ukrainian), số phần trăm (Vietnamese), tỷ lệ phần trăm (Vietnamese), porcintaedje [masculine] (Walloon), porcint [masculine] (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-percentage-en-noun-7TPfDJxb Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -age Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 39 45 16 Disambiguation of 'part of a whole': 96 3 1
  2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mathematics Translations (share of the profits): дял (djal) [masculine] (Bulgarian), percentatge [masculine] (Catalan), prosenttiosuus (Finnish), prosentti (Finnish), osuus (Finnish), pourcentage [masculine] (French), პროცენტული წილი (ṗrocenṭuli c̣ili) (Georgian), პროცენტი (ṗrocenṭi) (Georgian), prozentualer Anteil [masculine] (German), Hundertteil [masculine] (German), Hundertanteil [masculine] (German), ποσοστό (posostó) [neuter] (Greek), percentuale [feminine] (Italian), procent [masculine] (Polish), percentagem [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), porcentagem [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), porcentaje [masculine] (Spanish), kabahagdanan (Tagalog), відсо́ток (vidsótok) (Ukrainian), до́ля (dólja) (Ukrainian), porcintaedje [masculine] (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-percentage-en-noun-gqYVNQ6q Disambiguation of Mathematics: 33 58 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -age Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 56 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 34 57 8 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 39 45 16 Disambiguation of 'share of the profits': 7 84 9
  3. (informal) Benefit or advantage. Tags: countable, informal, uncountable Translations (informal: advantage): hyöty (Finnish), korzyść [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-percentage-en-noun-AZC6qut9 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -age Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 39 45 16 Disambiguation of 'informal: advantage': 4 6 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: per-centage [archaic] Derived forms: baker's percentage, field goal percentage, free throw percentage, on-base percentage, percentage dice, percentage point, percentage rate, percentagewise, slugging percentage, subpercentage Related terms: percent, percentile, permillage, permyriad

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          "roman": "peosentiji",
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      "word": "백분율"
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      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "part of a whole",
      "word": "kabahagdanan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "àt-dtraa-rɔ́ɔi-lá",
      "sense": "part of a whole",
      "word": "อัตราร้อยละ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vidsótok",
      "sense": "part of a whole",
      "word": "відсо́ток"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "part of a whole",
      "word": "số phần trăm"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "part of a whole",
      "word": "tỷ lệ phần trăm"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "part of a whole",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porcintaedje"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "part of a whole",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porcint"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "djal",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дял"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "percentatge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "prosenttiosuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "prosentti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "osuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pourcentage"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗrocenṭuli c̣ili",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "პროცენტული წილი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗrocenṭi",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "პროცენტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prozentualer Anteil"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hundertteil"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hundertanteil"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "posostó",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ποσοστό"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "percentuale"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "procent"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "percentagem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "porcentagem"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porcentaje"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "kabahagdanan"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vidsótok",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "відсо́ток"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dólja",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "word": "до́ля"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "share of the profits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porcintaedje"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "informal: advantage",
      "word": "hyöty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "informal: advantage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "korzyść"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "percentage"
  ],
  "word": "percentage"
}

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