English Explanatory Dictionary

para

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
noun
  1. A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
noun
  1. Clipping of paragraph.
  2. Clipping of paraphilia.
  3. Clipping of paraplegic.
  4. Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
  5. Clipping of paratrooper.
adj
  1. Very drunk.
noun
  1. Synonym of king fern (“the plant Ptisana salicina”).
noun
  1. Synonym of juz.
name
  1. A locality in the Wentworth council area, south western New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A district of Suriname.

Pronunciation

päʹrə /ˈpɑːɹə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-para (Spanish).wav pärʹə /ˈpæɹə/ păʹrə en-au-para.ogg

Word forms

para paras more para most para

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra /па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).

Synonyms

Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked blootered blottoed blue bollocksed bombed boozy bosky bottled Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungalowed bungfu burlin' canned clobbered corned cocked cockeyed crapulous crocked cunted cup-shot cup-shotten cut dead drunk destroyed disguised drunk drunk as a piper drunked up drunken ebriated ebriose elephant's elephant's trunk

Related words

multipara nullipara primipara gravida para grass para para para red Para cress Para-Romani

Derived words

paraphile parawise
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