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per

/pɜː//pɝ/

per preposition: for each.

Preposition

per

  1. For each.
    • Admission is £10 per person.
    • miles per gallon
  2. To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).
    • 12 inches per foot
    • 100 centimeters per meter
  3. By the, through the (with name of body part in Latin).
    • Introduce the endoscope per nasum.
    • The medication is to be administered per os.
  4. In accordance with, as per.
    • I parked my car at the curb per your request.
    • Implement a program that computes the approximate grade level needed to comprehend some text, per the below.
  5. According to.
    • Bucks trading for Patrick Beverley, per sources
    • The Heat were too close to the luxury tax line -- $1.6 million over before this trade, per ESPN's Bobby Marks

Pronoun

per (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative per, possessive adjective pers, possessive noun pers, reflexive perself)

  1. (gender-neutral, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person) They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
    • This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet)
  2. (gender-neutral, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person) Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her.
    • This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet)
    • "Kalypso!" I call out as phe disappears on the horizon. I did not know it, but I loved per.1998, Katherine Phelps, “Odysseus, She”, in Storytronics

Determiner

per

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Belonging to per; their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.
    • Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.2006 November 15, Richard Ekins, Dave King, The transgender phenomenon, Sage Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC HQ77.9.E55 2006, page 160
    Synonyms:
    their, eir, hir

Noun capitalized: PER

PER

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, nutrition) Initialism of protein efficiency ratio.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of price-earnings ratio.

per meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

per in Hindi

प्रति

per in Marathi

प्रति, प्रती

per in Urdu

فی

per in Bengali

via
মারফত marfot
More languagesFewer languages
per in Kannada
ಪ್ರತಿ
per in Punjabi
ਪ੍ਰਤੀ
per in Gujarati
પ્રતિ, દીઠ
per in Odia
ପ୍ରତି
per in Nepali
प्रति
per in Arabic
بِوَاسِطَة bi-wāsiṭa, بِـ bi-, عَنّ طَرِيق ʕann ṭarīq, لِكُلّ likull
per in Persian
برای هر, در هر
per in Thai
ละ lá
per in Vietnamese
mỗi, từng, trên, một

Examples of per in a sentence

  • Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.
  • The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second.
  • We were cruising along at well over the speed limit of fifty miles per hour.

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Synonyms of per

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Forms of per

accusativeper
adjective possessivepers
noun possessivepers
reflexiveperself

Origin of per

From Latin per (“through, during”), from Proto-Indo-European *per. Doublet of par.

Clipping of person, coined by American novelist and poet Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)

Words formed from per

Phrases with per

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Words that rhyme with per

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Questions about per

What does per mean?
Per means for each.
What is per in Hindi?
Per in Hindi is प्रति. See Per meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is per?
Per can be a preposition, a pronoun, a determiner or a noun.
How do you pronounce per?
Per is pronounced /pɜː/ (UK).

Words near per in the dictionary

  1. Pequit
  2. Pequod
  3. Pequods
  4. Pequot
  5. Pequots
  6. per
  7. per accidens
  8. per alia
  9. per annum
  10. per anum
  11. per bend

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: per (page history and authors); PER (page history and authors); per (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); per (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); per (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); per (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); per (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); per (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); per (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); per (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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