Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology.
- noun An abbreviation of
Paraguay . - noun A copper coin of Servia (one centime).
- noun A coin of the Turkish dominions, struck in silver and in copper, and current from the end of the seventeenth century.
- noun (pä′ rä). In the East Indies, a measure of capacity (at Bombay 3⅓ bushels); also, a measure of weight (at Ceylon from 30 to 50 pounds, according to the commodity, as coffee, pepper, rice, etc.).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Formerly, a subunit of
currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. - noun medicine A
woman who has had a certain number ofpregnancies , indicated by the numberprepended to this word. - adjective Australia, slang very
drunk - noun A
paragraph . - noun A
paratrooper .
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- noun (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- noun 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia
- noun port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
- noun a soldier in the paratroops
- noun an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows
Etymologies
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Examples
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We readily excuse the proverb, "_Quem vai para Pará para_" ( "He who goes to
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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I learned that "para" does not refer to paraplegic, but instead, "para" comes from the Greek word meaning "beside," since the Games are held alongside
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“Uh, not really,” I said, focusing on a worksheet about usage of the word por versus the word para, just in case Señora Alvarez showed up, just in case she remembered that she had assigned us homework.
mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010
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“Uh, not really,” I said, focusing on a worksheet about usage of the word por versus the word para, just in case Señora Alvarez showed up, just in case she remembered that she had assigned us homework.
mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010
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“Uh, not really,” I said, focusing on a worksheet about usage of the word por versus the word para, just in case Señora Alvarez showed up, just in case she remembered that she had assigned us homework.
mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010
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The "guns" and asked if i would be interested in para marine training, (he really wasn't ASKING) So thinking I was pretty
ronald dean douglas 2010
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Cre una torre de alta tensin para demostrar el transporte de energa impiety cable y gratuito y al pedir ms dinero para seguir criminal las investigaciones, se lo denegaron criminal intencin premeditada.
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Yup, the first para is kind of a mess of character introductions, quickly resolved by paragraph four but annoying nonetheless.
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Sprinkle all the info in para 1 in little dribbles throughout the first chapter.
Writing Workshop: What are YOU Working on? | Write to Done 2008
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Instead, they have high involvement in "para-church" institutions like Bible study groups and other kinds of fellowship.
Everything You Thought You Knew About Evangelicals Is Wrong (Maybe) - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
lampbane commented on the word para
For; in order to. Not to be confused with por.
December 2, 2007
mollusque commented on the word para
Seven independent derivations in English:
1) Turkish coin (from Persian pãra)
2) short for Para rubber (from Pará, Brazil)
3) a large tropical evergreen fern, Marattia fraxinea (Maori, para)
4) the hog deer, Axis porcinus (native name in India)
5) short for paragraph (from Greek para-)
6) short for paratrooper (from Latin parare)
7) a woman who has given birth to a given number of children (from Latin parus).
April 1, 2009