para

plural paras

1. historicalA 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.

   1854, Bayard Taylor, A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt...

plural paras

1. medicineA 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.

plural paras

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of paragraph.
2. abbreviationclippingClipping of paraphilia.
3. abbreviationclippingClipping of paraplegic.

   1 more example

   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, accidents do happen.

   2010, Shelley Lynn Tremain, editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability

4. USabbreviationclippinginformaleducationClipping of paraprofessional educator.
5. abbreviationclippinggovernmentClipping of paratrooper.

   Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation [title]

   2023 September 26, Dan Sabbagh, “Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

comparative more para · superlative most para

1. AustraliaUKslangVery drunk.

   Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken

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

   Synonyms: king fern

plural paras

1. South AsiaIslamSynonym of juz.

   Synonyms: juz

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