How do you use the word "average" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "average": Your marks were well below average this term. Your work is below average.

Average Meaning

/ˈæv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

nounAny measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode., The arithmetic mean.

Sentence Examples

Your marks were well below average this term.

Your work is below average.

The average age of participants was 52 years.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

mean common fair

Antonyms:

abnormal uncommon

CEFR Practice Quiz

To find the mean grade, you must calculate the ____ of all test scores.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ temperature in this city during the summer is thirty degrees.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Arabic عَوَار (ʕawār) Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Proto-Afroasiatic *-t Proto-Semitic *-at- Arabic ـَة (-a) Arabic ـِيَّة (-iyya) Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya)bor.? Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *haβēō Latin habēre Old Italian avére Old Italian -ìa ? Old Italian avariabor. Old French avarie Middle French avarie Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English average Not entirely certain. The oldest meaning in English is “customs duty”. Borrowed from Middle French avarie (“damage to ship or cargo”), from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria where it is first attested in the 12th century in the context of Mediterranean trade. From there most sources trace it to Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”), but the OED gives it a Romance derivation from Italian avere (“property, goods”) or the like. The English suffix -age was added in analogy to words like damage.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a start-to-stop average of 72.2 m.p.h., and that the northbound train has been taking 5 hr. 7 min. for an average of 70.3." — 1955 June, 'Mercury', “Over 200 Miles Per Hour”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:

"But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short." — 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2024, page 11:

"Historically, the courts have allowed a general average claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.[…]The court awarded the carrier the general average claim. It noted that “a ship′s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general average." — 2008, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment, page 219:

"We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most." — 2002, Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life, page 12:

"Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares." — 2004, Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits, page 75:

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