PORTION

noun a wife's fortune; a dowry.

2. portion ·noun a part assigned; allotment; share; fate.

3. portion ·vt to endow with a portion or inheritance.

4. portion ·noun a part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.

5. portion ·noun that which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

6. portion ·vt to separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.

7. portion ·noun 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.