Para

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology.
  • noun. An abbreviation of Paraguay.
  • noun. A copper coin of Servia (one centime).
  • noun. A coin of the Turkish dominions, struck in silver and in copper, and current from the end of the seventeenth century.
  • noun. (pä′ rä). In the East Indies, a measure of capacity (at Bombay 3⅓ bushels); also, a measure of weight (at Ceylon from 30 to 50 pounds, according to the commodity, as coffee, pepper, rice, etc.).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
  • noun. A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
  • adjective. very drunk
  • noun. A paragraph.
  • noun. A paratrooper.
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  • noun. (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
  • noun. 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia
  • noun. port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
  • noun. a soldier in the paratroops
  • noun. an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows
  • Word Usage
    "We readily excuse the proverb, "_Quem vai para Pará para_" ( "He who goes to"
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