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Para   /pˈɛrə/   Listen
Para

noun
1.
(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered.  Synonym: parity.  "A bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
2.
100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia.
3.
A soldier in the paratroops.  Synonym: paratrooper.
4.
An estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows.  Synonym: Para River.
5.
Port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin.  Synonyms: Belem, Feliz Lusitania, Santa Maria de Belem, St. Mary of Bethlehem.



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... which gave him jaundice, and about eight men are gone in chains to Keneh on suspicion. Hajjee Baba too, a Turkish cawass, is awfully bilious; he says he is 'sick from beating men, and it's no use, you can't coin money on their backs and feet when they haven't a para in the world.' Altogether everyone is gloomy, and many desperate. I never saw the aspect of ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon
... for this Stein reads by conjecture {Aibuen} and afterwards {para Kinupa potamon} for {para potamon}: but Kinyps was the name of the district about the river (iv. 198), and the name of the river ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 2 (of 2) • Herodotus
... [Abdul CARIMO Issa, chairman]; Human Rights and Development (Direitos Humanos e Desenvolvimento) or DHD [Artemisia FRANCO, secretary general]; Institute for Peace and Democracy (Instituto para Paz e Democracia) or IPADE [Raul DOMINGOS, president]; Movement for Peace and Citizenship (Movimento para Paz e Cidadania); Mozambican League of Human Rights (Liga Mocambicana dos Direitos Humanos) or LDH [Alice ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... auto, kai ampho despotika ton Beltionon, kai ta psephismata, osper ekei ta epitagmata kai o demagogos kai o kolax, oi autoi kai analogoi kai malista ekateroi par ekaterois ischuousin, oi men kolakes para turannois, oi de demagogoi para tois demois ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... the time that you would take no action. That was the doing of a Greek, as was established. Say, can you of your own experience of children of the Arabs say that one of us has ever robbed you of a small para, or wronged ...
— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall


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