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per

//pɜː//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Preposition

A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.

Note for per

Mnemonics, your own examples, reminders…

Definitions

  1. 1.For each.

    • Admission is £10 per person.
    • The Nuggets star is averaging 24.9 PPG, 11.9 RPG (rebounds per game) and an agonizing 9.9 APG (assists per game) – demonstrating Jokić’s incredible all-around ability.
  2. 2.To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).

  3. 3.By the, through the (with name of body part in Latin).

    • The medication is to be administered per os.
    • Introduce the endoscope per nasum.
  4. 4.In accordance with, as per.

    • I parked my car at the curb per your request.
    • Implement a program that computes the approximate grade level needed to comprehend some text, per the below.
    • Note that while the walkthrough illustrates that words may be separated by more than one space, you may assume, per the specifications above, that no sentences will contain more than one space in a row.

Frequency

Overall

Common· #727

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Common
Academic
Uncommon
Literature
Rare

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Italic *per

Latin perder.

English per

From Latin per (“through, during”), from Proto-Indo-European *per. Doublet of par.

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