HOW TO PRONOUNCE
average
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪd͡ʒ/
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AV-er-ij: the final g sounds like j.
The first vowel is the a in “cat.” The middle vowel may disappear in the shorter AV-rij pronunciation, which the dictionary also records.
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“The average journey takes about forty minutes.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does average mean?
noun
- Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- The arithmetic mean.
- A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
More meanings (12)
noun
- An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
- (dated) Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- (obsolete) Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- (obsolete) The feudal service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
adjective
- Constituting or relating to the average.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
- Typical.
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
verb
- To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- To be, generally or on average.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪd͡ʒ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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Those nation-loved children of theirs compared with the average in our country as the most perfectly cultivated, richly developed roses compare with--tumbleweeds.
He was a very lean man, of no more than average height, with gray hair cut short and a stubbly gray moustache.
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It was only an average little conscience, a thing which represented the world, her past environment, habit, convention, in a confused way.
In all else, he appears as a man ardent, passionate, practical, designed for affairs and prospering in them far beyond the average.
Big-heartedness, generosity, courage, and self-denial are the qualifications of a public servant, and the average Indian was keen to follow this ideal.