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PARA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
Synonyms:
Belem; Feliz Lusitania; Para; Santa Maria de Belem; St. Mary of Bethlehem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows
Synonyms:
Para; Para River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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 3
Meaning:
A soldier in the paratroops
Synonyms:
para; paratrooper
Classified under:
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:
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 5
Meaning:
(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
Example:
a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children
Synonyms:
para; parity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
