para
/ˈpɑːɹə/ · noun
Meaning
- A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
- A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
- A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
- A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
- A paratrooper.
- Very drunk
- Short for paraprofessional educator.
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