PARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Para mean? 

• PARA (noun)
  The noun PARA has 5 senses:

1. (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered

2. 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia

3. a soldier in the paratroops

4. an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows

5. port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin

  Familiarity information: PARA used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

para; parity

Context example:

a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children

Hypernyms ("para" is a kind of...):

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

Domain category:

midwifery; OB; obstetrics; tocology (the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother)

Derivation:

parous (having given birth to one or more viable children)

Sense 2

Meaning:

100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("para" is a kind of...):

Yugoslavian monetary unit (monetary unit in Yugoslavia)

Holonyms ("para" is a part of...):

dinar; Yugoslavian dinar (the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A soldier in the paratroops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

para; paratrooper

Hypernyms ("para" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Holonyms ("para" is a member of...):

paratroops (infantry trained and equipped to parachute)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Para; Para River

Instance hypernyms:

estuary (the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix)

Holonyms ("Para" is a part of...):

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Belem; Feliz Lusitania; Para; Santa Maria de Belem; St. Mary of Bethlehem

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Para" is a part of...):

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

 Context examples 

It may be that when we reach Para we shall stop to refit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You didn't get my letter at Para, then?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I don't know what is inside this envelope, but, unless it is something pretty definite, I shall be much tempted to take the next down-river boat and catch the Bolivia at Para.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There's a Booth boat for Para next Wednesday week, and if the Professor and you can work it, I think we should take it—what?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At Para they knew nothing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very particularly would I thank Senhor Penalosa and other officials of the Brazilian Government for the special arrangements by which we were helped upon our way, and Senhor Pereira of Para, to whose forethought we owe the complete outfit for a decent appearance in the civilized world which we found ready for us at that town.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A handful of villainous half-breeds dominated the country, armed such Indians as would support them, and turned the rest into slaves, terrorizing them with the most inhuman tortures in order to force them to gather the india-rubber, which was then floated down the river to Para.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious voyage upon the Booth liner, nor will I tell of our week's stay at Para (save that I should wish to acknowledge the great kindness of the Pereira da Pinta Company in helping us to get together our equipment).

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)