paragraph

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paragraph

/ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/ Australia, UK
/ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/ US
/ˈpɛɹəɡɹæf/
/ˈpaɹəɡɹaf/ Northern England
/ˈpaɾəɡɾaf/ Scotland
/ˈpaɾəɡɾaf/ Wales
/-ɡɾaːf/ Wales

Where it comes from

From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). Doublet of paragraphos.

noun paragraphs

A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic. opening paragraph
A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper. Much of its earliest foreign news came direct from the minister, and not seldom in his own hand. Louis XIII. took a keen, perhaps a somewhat childish, interest in the progress of the infant Gazette, and was a frequent contributor, now and then taking his little paragraphs to the printing office hims
An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.

verb paragraphs · paragraphing · paragraphed

transitive To sort text into paragraphs.
transitive To publish a brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: text, comma, article, subparagraph, figure, number, recital, subsection, clause, aspect, preamble, duan, piece, section, length, part

Translations

Every language

noun passage in text

Español	párrafo, parágrafo, acápite
한국어	단락 dallak
日本語	段落 danraku
中文	段 duàn, 段落 duànluò, 自然段 zìránduàn
हिन्दी	अनुच्छेद anucched, पैराग्राफ़ pairāgrāf
Português	parágrafo
Français	paragraphe, alinéa
Deutsch	Absatz, Paragraph
Italiano	paragrafo
Ελληνικά	παράγραφος parágrafos
Română	paragraf
Русский	абза́ц abzác, пара́граф parágraf
Tiếng Việt	đoạn
العربية	فِقْرَة fiqra, بَنْد band
עברית	פִּיסְקָה \ פִּסְקָה piská

verb sort text into paragraphs

Italiano	paragrafare
Ελληνικά	παραγραφοποιώ paragrafopoió

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@misc{paragraph_2026,
  title = {paragraph},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/paragraph},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}