a monetary unit of Serbia worth one hundredth of a dinar; formerly a monetary unit of Yugoslavia
Word origin
C17: Serbo-Croat, via Turkish from Persian pārah piece, portion
para in British English2
(ˈpærə)
noun informal
1.
a.
a soldier in an airborne unit
b.
an airborne unit
2.
a paragraph
para in British English3
(ˈpɑːrɑː)
nounWord forms: pluralpara or parae
a New Zealand fern, Marattia salicina, with long heavy fronds
Also called: horseshoe fern, king fern
Word origin
Māori
Pará in British English
(Portuguese paˈra)
noun
1.
a state of N Brazil, on the Atlantic: mostly dense tropical rainforest Capital: Belém. Pop: 6 453 683 (2002). Area: 1 248 042 sq km (474 896 sq miles)
2. another name for Belém
3.
an estuary in N Brazil into which flow the Tocantins River and a branch of the Amazon. Length: about 320 km (200 miles)
para- in British English1
or before a vowel par-
prefix
1.
beside; near
parameter
parathyroid
2.
beyond
parapsychology
3.
resembling
paramnesia
4.
defective; abnormal
paraesthesia
5.
subsidiary to
paraphysis
6. (usually in italics)
denoting that an organic compound contains a benzene ring with substituents attached to atoms that are directly opposite across the ring (the 1,4- positions)