Percent Definition

pərsent
per-cent, percents
adverb
Per hundred; in, to, or for every hundred.
A 20 percent rate means 20 in every 100
Webster's New World
noun
A hundredth part.
Webster's New World
A percentage or portion.
She has invested a large percent of her salary.
American Heritage
Securities bearing regular interest of a (stated) percentage.
The four percents.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Paying or demanding interest at a specified percentage.
A 2.25 percent checking account.
American Heritage
Expressed in percents; usually together with a number.
I got a ten percent raise!
The whisky usually contains over fifty percent alcohol by volume in the maturing casks, while the commercial brands are diluted to 40 to 45 percent.
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Other Word Forms of Percent

Noun

Singular:
percent
Plural:
percents

Origin of Percent

  • From per cent. abbreviation of per centum by the hundred per per per centum hundred dekm̥ in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin per centum (“for every hundred").

    From Wiktionary

Percent Sentence Examples

  • I was a hundred percent truthful—same as always, almost.

  • That eighty percent went to ninety nine.

  • She took about eighty percent of your tips at the call center.

  • He said about 99 percent of the people in the world just go along and let things happen to them.

  • Do I detect you're not 100 percent sure the old boy drowned?

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Words Starting With

PPEPER

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TNTENT

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