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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026av•er•age /ˈævərɪdʒ, ˈævrɪdʒ/USA pronunciation
n., adj., v., -aged, -ag•ing. n. - Mathematics, the number that results from adding several quantities together and then dividing that total by the number of quantities that were added;
arithmetic mean:[countable]Their high-school averages were very high, usually 97 or above.
- a typical, usual, or normal amount, rate, degree, level, etc.: [countable; usually singular]The people in that village lived for an average of seventy years.[uncountable]Her work is well above average.
adj. - [before a noun] of, relating to, or forming an average: The average rainfall is only six inches a year.
- typical;
common;
ordinary:[before a noun]the average person.
- of middle quality;
fair:got only average grades in school.
v. - to find an average of:[~ + object]She averaged the scores of her last three tests and came up with 93.
- to do, have, or get on the average:[~ + object]to average seven hours of sleep a night.
- Businessaverage out, [ + out (+ to + object)]]
- to reach or show an average:My taxes average out to a third of my income. I earn different amounts each month, but it usually averages out.
Idioms
- Idioms on the or an average, usually;
typically:On the average I see about ten students a day.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026av•er•age
(av′ər ij, av′rij),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., -aged, -ag•ing. n. - Mathematicsa quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean:Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- a typical amount, rate, degree, etc.;
norm.
- Statistics, MathematicsSee arithmetic mean.
- Mathematicsa quantity intermediate to a set of quantities.
- Business[Com.]
- a charge paid by the master of a ship for such services as pilotage or towage.
- an expense, partial loss, or damage to a ship or cargo.
- the incidence of such an expense or loss to the owners or their insurers.
- an equitable apportionment among all the interested parties of such an expense or loss. Cf. general average, particular average.
- on the or an average, usually;
typically:She can read 50 pages an hour, on the average.
adj. - of or pertaining to an average;
estimated by average;
forming an average:The average rainfall there is 180 inches.
- typical;
common;
ordinary:The average secretary couldn't handle such a workload. His grades were nothing special, only average.
v.t. - to find an average value for (a variable quantity);
reduce to a mean:We averaged the price of milk in five neighborhood stores.
- (of a variable quantity) to have as its arithmetic mean:Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel.
- to do or have on the average:He averages seven hours of sleep a night.
v.i. - to have or show an average:to average as expected.
- Law average down, to purchase more of a security or commodity at a lower price to reduce the average cost of one's holdings.
- Law average out:
- to come out of a security or commodity transaction with a profit or without a loss.
- to reach an average or other figure:His taxes should average out to about a fifth of his income.
- Law average up, to purchase more of a security or commodity at a higher price to take advantage of a contemplated further rise in prices.
- Arabic ‘awārīyah damaged merchandise), with -age replacing -ay
- Old Italian avaria
- Middle French avarie
- earlier averay charge on goods shipped, origin, originally duty (1485–95
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
average /ˈævərɪdʒ; ˈævrɪdʒ/ n - the typical or normal amount, quality, degree, etc: above average in intelligence
- Also called: arithmetic mean the result obtained by adding the numbers or quantities in a set and dividing the total by the number of members in the set: the average of 3, 4, and 8 is 5
- (of a continuously variable ratio, such as speed) the quotient of the differences between the initial and final values of the two quantities that make up the ratio
- a loss incurred or damage suffered by a ship or its cargo at sea
- the equitable apportionment of such loss among the interested parties
- on average, on the average, on an average ⇒ usually; typically
adj - usual or typical
- mediocre or inferior: his performance was only average
- constituting a numerical average: the average age, an average speed
- approximately typical of a range of values: the average contents of a matchbox
vb - (transitive) to obtain or estimate a numerical average of
- (transitive) to assess the general quality of
- (transitive) to perform or receive a typical number of: to average eight hours' work a day
- (transitive) to divide up proportionately
- (transitive) to amount to or be on average: the children averaged 15 years of age
Etymology: 15th Century averay loss arising from damage to ships or cargoes (shared equitably among all concerned; hence the modern sense), from Old Italian avaria, ultimately from Arabic awār damage, blemishˈaveragely adv ˈaverageness n
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