percent

Meaning

Adv

For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).

Noun

1. A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
2. One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
3. The percent sign, %.
4. An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.

PrepPhrase

Per hundred.

Synonyms

percentage

per cent

pct

per cent

per centum

one-hundredth

interest rate

manure

fraction

feces

point

rate

one percent

centage

percentage point

excrement

hundredth

dung

incidence

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəˈsɛnt/

Etymology

From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).

Sentences

Five percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race .

With your thirty percent discount it will cost eighty-five dollars .