English Explanatory Dictionary

pao

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi cannon, moving orthogonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. Initialism of period after opening.
  2. Initialism of polyalphaolefin.

Word forms

pao paos PαO

Etymology

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 炮 (pào).

Related words

AO LAO LαO NAO NαO αO
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