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# per

noun

«per» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

354 uses in 135 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 311 of 354. By the class of the article: city 56, country 38, agglomeration 15, company 14. Most often with: «cent», «capita», «income», «rate», «have».

### Examples

- The per capita income for the township was $38,737. — [Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), sentence 57 («wiki:Abington\_Township,\_Montgomery\_County,\_Pennsylvania:57»)
- The per capita income for the city was $16,242. — [Alexandria, Louisiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Louisiana), sentence 49 («wiki:Alexandria,\_Louisiana:49»)
- The per capita income for the city was $33,282. — [Appleton, Wisconsin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton,_Wisconsin), sentence 76 («wiki:Appleton,\_Wisconsin:76»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Alexandria, Louisiana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Louisiana), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Appleton, Wisconsin»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton,_Wisconsin), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.