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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • preposition. To, for, or by each; for every: Gasoline once cost 40 cents per gallon.
  • preposition. According to; by: Changes were made to the manuscript per the author's instructions.
  • preposition. By means of; through.
  • ad. Informal For each one; apiece: sold the cookies for one dollar per.
  • ad. Informal Per hour: was driving at 60 miles per.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • preposition. for each
  • preposition. to each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units)
  • preposition. via (the), by (the), through (the) (followed by Latin name for an orifice)
  • preposition. in accordance with
  • pronoun. they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
  • pronoun. them (singular) Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered him and her.
  • adj. Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • preposition. Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each. Per is also sometimes used with English words.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Through; by means of.
  • A prefix of Latin origin, meaning primarily ‘through.’ See the etymology.
  • As an inseparable prefix of intensity, ‘thoroughly,’ ‘very,’ as in peracute, perfervid, pellucid; specifically, in chem., noting the maximum or an unusual amount, as peroxid, the highest oxid, or an oxid containing more oxygen than the protoxid, etc.
  • n. In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a prefix used to form adjectives, and showing that the factor or component indicated is present in any division of igneous rocks, alone or in extreme amount — that is, that its ratio to another factor is greater than : as, peralkalic, perfelic, perfemane, perfemic, etc.
  • n. An abbreviation of period.
  • Word Usage
    "Kilwardby also stresses that in a per se necessity sentence, the subject must be ˜something belonging in itself to that predicate™ (˜per se aliquod ipsius predicati™), by which he seems to mean that the subject has the predicate as an essential property, i.e., such that it has the predicate as a necessary property through itself and not through something else."
    Form
    per annum    per accidens    percent    per capita    per nasum    per anum    per orem   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    through    by    for   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Burr    Fleur    Fur    Kerr    Monsieur    Shir    Sir    Spur    Thur    Ur   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Se    sorella