portion

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
2. n. A part separated from a whole.
3. n. A part that is allotted to a person or group, as:
4. n. A helping of food.
5. n. The part of an estate received by an heir.
6. n. A woman's dowry.
7. n. A person's lot or fate.
8. v. To divide into parts or shares for distribution; parcel.
9. v. To provide with a share, inheritance, or dowry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A part of a whole, whether separated from it, or considered by itself though not actually separated.
2. n. A part assigned or contributed; a share; an allowance or allotment; hence, a helping at table.
3. n. Lot; fate; destiny.
4. n. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, or to be distributed to him in the settlement of the estate.
5. n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
6. To divide or distribute into portions or shares; parcel; allot in shares.
7. To endow with a portion or an inheritance.

Wiktionary

1. n. An allocated amount.
2. v. transitive To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
3. v. transitive To endow with a portion or inheritance.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
2. n. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
3. n. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
4. n. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
5. n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
6. v. To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
7. v. To endow with a portion or inheritance.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
2. n. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
3. n. the allotment of some amount by dividing something
4. n. an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
5. v. give out
6. n. something determined in relation to something that includes it
7. n. money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
8. n. something less than the whole of a human artifact