From Middle French avarie, from Old French avarie, from roa-oit avaria (which is possibly from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة, from عَوَار ("fault, blemish, defect, flaw"), from عَوِرَ ("to lose an eye")) + English suffix -age.

• (RP, America) enPR: ăvʹ(ə)rĭ IPA: /ˈæv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

average (plural averages)

1. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

   The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

2. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. [from c. 1735]
3. (legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. [from 15th c.]
4. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
5. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
6. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

   batting average

• French: moyenne
• German: Durchschnitt, arithmetisches Mittel, Mittelwert
• Italian: media
• Portuguese: média
• Russian: сре́днее
• Spanish: promedio, media

average

1. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

   The average age of the participants was 18.5.

2. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

   I soon found I was only an average chess player.

3. Typical.

   The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

4. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

• (constituting or relating to the average) av., ave., avg., expectation (colloquial), mean
• (neither very good nor very bad) mediocre, medium, middle-ranking, middling, unremarkable, so-so, comme ci comme ça
• (typical) conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard (slang)
• (not outstanding, not good; bad or poor) ordinary, uninspiring

• (antonym(s) of “neither very good nor very bad”): extraordinary

• French: moyen
• German: durchschnittlich
• Italian: medio, media
• Portuguese: médio, média
• Russian: сре́дний
• Spanish: medio

• Portuguese: equilibrado
• Russian: сре́дний
• Spanish: ni fu ni fa, promedio, mediocre

• French: moyen
• Russian: обыкнове́нный
• Spanish: común y corriente

average (averages, present participle averaging; simple past and past participle averaged)

1. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

   If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.

2. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

   The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.

   I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.

3. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

   to average a loss

4. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
   • 1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds:

     Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]

From Middle English average, from Medieval Latin averagium, from aver from Old English eafor from aferian; + -age.

average (plural averages)

1. (UK, legal, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.