Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.).
- noun A prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology.
- noun An abbreviation of
Paraguay .
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 A
paratrooper . - adjective Australia, slang very
drunk - noun A
paragraph . - noun medicine A
woman who has had a certain number ofpregnancies , indicated by the numberprepended to this word.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
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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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“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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“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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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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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.
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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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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