Para. Definition
Formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
(medicine) A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
A paragraph.
A paratrooper.
- parity
- paratrooper
- para river
- St. Mary of Bethlehem
- Santa Maria de Belem
- Feliz Lusitania
- belem
(law) Abbreviation of Paraguay.
(Australia, slang) Very drunk.
Origin of Para.
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Gr para- < para, at the side of, alongside < IE *pera-, var. of *per-, a going beyond > far, fore
From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
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From Serbo-Croatian pàra/па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).
From Wiktionary
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Latin from parere to give birth perə-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Greek from para beside per1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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The second part of words such as primipara and multipara
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Shortened from paratrooper
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Shortened from paragraph
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Shortened from paralytic
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From parachute
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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