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 Etymology AI details From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”). per centum Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Numbers & Quantity External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # 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 markdown