percentage
Syllables: per·cent·age/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
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Philippines/ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/
percentage noun: the amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
Noun
percentage (countable and uncountable, plural percentages)
- The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
- A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
- The replacement percentages are based largely on household spending data from the Department of Labor's Consumer Expenditure Survey.2017 November 29, Walter Updegrave, “How much income will you actually need in retirement?”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025
- Synonyms:
- centage
- A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
- She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
- Benefit or advantage.
- There was no percentage in staying at home.
percentage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
percentage in Hindi
- part of a whole
- प्रतिशतता pratiśattā
percentage in Tamil
- நூறு பங்குகளில் எத்தனை பங்கு, விழுக்காடு, சதவிகிதம், சதவீதம்
percentage in Marathi
- टक्केवारी, टक्केवारीः
percentage in Urdu
- فیصد, فی صد
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- percentage in Bengali
- শতকরা হার, অংশ, ভাগ, সংখ্যা
- percentage in Telugu
- శాతం, శాతము
- percentage in Malayalam
- ശതമാനം śatamānaṁ
- percentage in Kannada
- ನೂರಕ್ಕೆ ಬೆಲೆ, ನೂರಕ್ಕೆ ಲೆಕ್ಕ, ಪ್ರತಿಶತ
- percentage in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰਤੀਸ਼ਤ, ਪ੍ਰਤੀਸ਼ਤਤਾ, ਫੀਸਦੀ
- percentage in Gujarati
- ટકાવારી, ટકા
- percentage in Odia
- ପ୍ରତିଶତ
- percentage in Sinhala
- ප්රතිශතය
- percentage in Nepali
- प्रतिशत
- percentage in Tagalog
- kabahagdanan
- percentage in Arabic
- النِّسْبَة الْمِئَوِيَّة an-nisba l-miʔawiyya
- percentage in Malay
- peratusan
- percentage in Indonesian
- persentase
- percentage in Thai
- อัตราร้อยละ àt-dtraa-rɔ́ɔi-lá
- percentage in Vietnamese
- số phần trăm, tỷ lệ phần trăm
- percentage in Myanmar
- ရာခိုင်နှုန်း rahkuinghnun:, ခိုင်နှုန်း hkuinghnun:
Examples of percentage in a sentence
- His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.
- The percentage of a country's population in employment used to be called "participation rate".
- The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.
Synonyms of percentage
Forms of percentage
| plural | percentages |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | per-centage |
Origin of percentage
From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).
Words formed from percentage
Phrases with percentage
Questions about percentage
- What does percentage mean?
- Percentage means the amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
- What is percentage in Hindi?
- Percentage in Hindi is प्रतिशतता (pratiśattā). See Percentage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is percentage?
- Percentage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce percentage?
- Percentage is pronounced /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of percentage?
- The plural of percentage is percentages.
Words near percentage in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: percentage (page history and authors); percentage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); percentage (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentage (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); percentage (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ശതമാനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); percentage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); percentage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentage (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); percentage (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors); percentage (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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