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para¹

  • /ˈpɑːɹə/ UK
  • /ˈpɑːɹə/ US

Rhymes with -ɑːɹə

Where it comes from

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

noun paras

  1. historical A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. She managed things with so much economy that she was enabled to save two paras every day, out of the piastre which he gave her.

para²

  • /ˈpæɹə/
  • /ˈpɑːɹə/

Where it comes from

Clipping of words such as primipara and multipara.

noun paras

  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.

para³

  • /ˈpæɹə/

Rhymes with -æɹə

Where it comes from

Clippings.

noun paras

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of paragraph
  2. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of paraphilia
  3. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of paraplegic The problems that male paras encounter in relation to bladder management pale in significance when placed alongside the problems with bladder management that female paraplegics experience. For women paras, attempts are made to train the bladder to empty itself at regular intervals; however, accident
  4. US, abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of paraprofessional educator
  5. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of paratrooper Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation [title]

para⁴

  • /ˈpæɹə/

Rhymes with -æɹə

Where it comes from

Clipping of paralytic.

adjective more para · most para

  1. Australia, UK, slang Very drunk.

    Similar: 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

para⁵

noun

  1. New Zealand Synonym of king fern (“the plant Ptisana salicina”).

    Similar: king fern

para⁶

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Urdu پاره (pāra), from Persian پاره (pâre).

noun paras

  1. South Asia Synonym of juz.

    Similar: juz

Para⁷

proper noun

  1. A locality in the Wentworth council area, south western New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A district of Suriname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: paratrooper, par, for, belem, via, torque, subsection, sect, article, section, art, arts, paragraph, pair, with, rule

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@misc{para_2026,
  title = {para},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/para},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}