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Meaning average meaning

What does average mean?
Definitions in simple English

average Adjective

— To be average is to be not one extreme or another. In football, he is an average player.

average Noun

— An average is a measure in the middle of several numbers. The average size of a family in America is about two or three. The average height of the boys in my class is five feet and three inches.

average

— adjective (= mean) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value the average income in New England is below that of the nation of average height for his age the mean annual rainfall — verb (= average out) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40 — noun (= norm) a statistic describing the location of a distribution it set the norm for American homes — adjective (= ordinary) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered average people the ordinary (or common) man in the street — adjective (= fair, mediocre, middling) lacking exceptional quality or ability a novel of average merit only a fair performance of the sonata in fair health the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average the performance was middling at best — adjective (= intermediate, medium) around the middle of a scale of evaluation an orange of average size intermediate capacity medium bombers — verb achieve or reach on average He averaged a C — verb compute the average of — noun an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual he is about average in height the snowfall this month is below average — noun (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities — adjective (= median) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20 the median income for the year was $15,000 — adjective (= modal) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30

Synonyms average synonyms

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Topics average topics

What do people use average to talk about?
States Quantity All

Average
States

Big
Person Sense, perceive See Appearance

Beautiful

  • What words describe something or someone that is neither beautiful nor ugly?
    plain average ordinary
States Quality Good

Mediocre

Conjugation average conjugation

How do you conjugate average?

average · verb

Examples average examples

How do I use average in a sentence?

Simple sentences

My school grades were average.
The average human body contains enough bones to make an entire human skeleton.
Your marks were well below average this term.
Your work is below average.
Your English composition is above the average.
What is the average height of the players?
The average of 7, 10, and 16 is 11.
The average of 3, 4 and 5 is 4.
The temperature is above average this winter.
At worst, I will get an average mark.
According to a recent study, the average life span of the Japanese is still increasing.
My grade is above the average.
I sleep six hours a day on average.
In this country the average number of children per family fell from 2 to 1.5.
My work at school was well above average.
Each year the world's population increases on average by two percent.
What is the average life span in Japan?
Japanese women get married at 25 on average.
Japanese women marry at 26 on average. It is no mystery that the birthrate is declining.
His work is below average.

Movie subtitles

As recently as the 1 980s, the average American was 7 0 times richer than the average Chinese.
What do you mean? - The stuff that Dekaan puts in that water isn't gonna show up on your average tests.
You're not the average man, Murdoch.
The average man would go after the reward.
Er, what do you think of the average Englishman?
You know, your husband is not like the average American man.
Just a lovely, average girl.
The problems that confront the average man.
The average man, given the punishment you received would be flat on his back for at least a week.
The average masons are terribly mediocre.
A poison pen acts on much more mysterious motives that are incomprehensible to the average man, and even more so to the average policeman.
Out. The average mind.
The stuff that Dekaan puts in that water isn't gonna show up on your average tests.
On average, I suppose our life span is about 10 times that of the average person.
The average lawyer puts his energy into his argument, but it's in the hands of his adversary.
What do you think of the average Englishman?
Average!
This Metford fellow is above the average run of criminals.
You have intelligence beyond that of the average criminal.
It's better than your average cup.
Common sense and sensibility of the average Frenchman!
My uncle's opinions aren't average and I'm afraid they wouldn't help you.
Stark realism. The problems that confront the average man.
Your picking us as an average family gave me a funny feeling.
I guess I don't like to be and average girl in an average family.
Average families are the best.
I'm from an average family.
As average as ours? Sure.
Besides, I don't think you're average.
The average temperature, 73.
Cozy, okay for the average family. only you'd need a compass to go to the mailbox.

News and current affairs

All these data are at an aggregate level and reflect average views among voters and investors.
It would seem not, as it is also true that very trusting people also have lower incomes than the average.
On average, per capita income in the countries that are the source of these investments is four times higher than in the target countries.
But average GDP growth rates in the new members are twice as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.
The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.
Though an average American childhood may not be the worst in the world, the disparity between the country's wealth and the condition of its children is unparalleled.
The number is estimated to be around 270 million, or almost one per person on average.
CEOs who were once paid around 30 times what their average workers earned now make around 230 times that amount.
Productivity growth was strong, but far outpaced wage growth, and workers' real hourly compensation declined, on average, even for those with a university education.
The best evidence suggests that Americans watch more than five hours per day of television on average - a staggering amount, given that several hours more are spent in front of other video-streaming devices.
In Scandinavia, for example, time spent watching TV is roughly half the US average.
Masters of these disciplines were revered there, medicine advanced quickly, and the average person was curious about how nature worked.
In the past, calls for active civic engagement and Havel's moralistic views left average Czechs cold and alienated political opponents, who accused him of promoting a nonpolitical form of politics.
Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry?
The German operations naturally generate a surplus of funds (given that savings in Germany far exceed investment on average).
Prior to the crisis, American consumers, on average, either saved nothing or accumulated debt.
The data show, intriguingly, that those who show levels of trust well below the average for the country they live in are likely to have lower incomes.
In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the length of the average workweek has held steady at about 34 hours since the advent of the Internet two decades ago.
Other countries log far fewer viewing hours. In Scandinavia, for example, time spent watching TV is roughly half the US average.
Since the 1970's, Latin American countries have experienced, on average, 1.6 balance of payments crises per decade; some of the better known include the Mexican crisis of 1994-95, the Brazilian crisis of 1999, and the Argentine crisis of 2001-2002.
The highest growth achieved in the Chavez years is lower than Venezuela's average during the second half of the 1990's, when oil was the exclusive domain of the private sector.

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