percent

B1 Topic:Numbers & Quantity

US /pɚˈsɛnt/ UK /pəˈsɛnt/ See IPA manual

Freq #2586

Meanings

1

noun
One part in every hundred, written with the sign %.

Almost 90 percent of the students passed the final exam.
2

adv
For every hundred; out of a total of 100.

She won 75 percent of the vote in the election.
3

noun
The percent sign, %.

Remember to add a percent sign after the number.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · one part in every hundred,... percentage

Word family

Forms percents

Derived forms percent-encodepercent-encoding

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Proverbs (4)

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Etymology

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

per centum Latin

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Topics

Numbers & Quantity

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# percent

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun, adv
**IPA (US):** /pɚˈsɛnt/
**IPA (UK):** /pəˈsɛnt/
**Frequency rank:** 2586

## Meanings
1. One part in every hundred, written with the sign %.
2. For every hundred; out of a total of 100.
3. The percent sign, %.

## Examples
- Almost 90 percent of the students passed the final exam.
- She won 75 percent of the vote in the election.
- Remember to add a percent sign after the number.

## Derived Forms
- percent-encode
- percent-encoding

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: per centum

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

## AI Etymology
Percent comes from New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”). The historical chain includes per centum (la-new). In present-day English it covers one part in every hundred, written with the sign %, for every hundred; out of a total of 100, and the percent sign, %. The wider family includes derived forms such as percent-encode, percent-encoding.

## Topics
- Numbers & Quantity

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