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noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of paragraph And this particular Chisolm — as the papers had spelled out in headlines and opening pars — had been a soldier, a corporal in the British Army.
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of parenthesis
  3. abbreviation Abbreviation of parish

adjective

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of parallel

par²

  • /pɑː/ UK
  • /pɑɹ/ US
  • [pʰɑɹ] US
  • [pʰɑ˞] US

Sounds like pa (non-rhotic), pah (“Maori fort”) (non-rhotic), paw (non-rhotic, cot–caught merger, father–bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French par (“through, by”), from Latin per (“through”). Doublet of per.

preposition

  1. in compounds By; with.

par³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin pār (“equal”).

noun pars

  1. countable, uncountable Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well
  2. countable, uncountable Equality of condition or circumstances.
  3. uncountable The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole. He needs to make this shot for par.
  4. countable A hole in which a player achieves par. Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth.
  5. UK, countable, uncountable An amount which is taken as an average or mean.

verb pars · parring · parred

  1. transitive To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes. He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.

par⁴

noun pars

  1. alternative Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”).

par⁵

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole, itself from partner.

verb pars · parring · parred

  1. Multicultural London English To associate, to chill, to hang. Par with the hard heads and young offenders.

Par⁶

proper noun

  1. A village and beach in Tywardreath and Par parish, east of St Austell, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0753).

PAR⁷

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of periodic automatic replenishment: in inventory control, a fixed quantity of an item that must be kept on hand to support daily operations.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of photosynthetically-active radiation
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of precision approach radar
  4. abbreviation Abbreviation of phased-array radar
  5. abbreviation Abbreviation of pseudoautosomal region
  6. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of personnel accountability report

proper noun

  1. Philippines, abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Philippine Area of Responsibility

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of planed all round: of timber, planed on all sides as opposed to rough sawn.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: equivalence, equality, for, asr, nof, raa, aad, eor, rpa, rpp, average, radar, paragraph, line, nameplate, torque

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@misc{par_2026,
  title = {par},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/par},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}