Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. See Table at currency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
- n. A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
- n. A paragraph.
- n. A paratrooper.
- adj. very drunk
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A coin of the Turkish dominions, struck in silver and in copper, and current from the end of the seventeenth century.
- n. (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.).
- n. A prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology.
- n. A copper coin of Servia (one centime).
- n. An abbreviation of Paraguay.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- n. 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia
- n. port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
- n. a soldier in the paratroops
- n. an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows
Etymologies
Examples
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We readily excuse the proverb, "_Quem vai para Pará para_" ( "He who goes to
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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.
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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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The "guns" and asked if i would be interested in para marine training, (he really wasn't ASKING) So thinking I was pretty
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Sprinkle all the info in para 1 in little dribbles throughout the first chapter.
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Instead, they have high involvement in "para-church" institutions like Bible study groups and other kinds of fellowship.
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One of the stranger things (to me, at least) about para para is that smiling does not seem to be required, or even desirable.
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The "grave consequences" mentioned in para 13 of the Dorn Affirmation is a conclusory allegation, for which prosecution of the torturers is the only conceivable consequence.
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
lampbane commented on the word para
For; in order to. Not to be confused with por.
December 2, 2007