portion

Noun

• an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
  • the helpings were all small
    
  • his portion was larger than hers
    
  • there's enough for two servings each
    

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
  • whatever my fortune may be
    
  • deserved a better fate
    
  • has a happy lot
    
  • the luck of the Irish
    
  • a victim of circumstances
    
  • success that was her portion
    

• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
  • he wanted his share in cash
    

• the allotment of some amount by dividing something
  • death gets more than its share of attention from theologians
    

• something less than the whole of a human artifact
  • the rear part of the house
    
  • glue the two parts together
    

• something determined in relation to something that includes it
  • he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself
    
  • I read a portion of the manuscript
    
  • the smaller component is hard to reach
    
  • the animal constituent of plankton
    

Verb

• give out
  • We were assigned new uniforms
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  helping , serving , dowry , dowery , dower , fortune , destiny , fate , luck , lot , circumstances , share , part , percentage , parcel , component part , component , constituent , assign , allot