Usually means: Prefix meaning alongside, beyond, altered.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word para:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. para: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Para, -para, para, para-: Merriam-Webster
  3. para, para, para, para-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. para, para-, para-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. para, para-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Para, para: Vocabulary.com
  7. Para, para, para, para-: Wordnik
  8. para, para-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Para, para, para-: Wiktionary
  10. para, para-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. para, para-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. para: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Par'a, -para, para, para, para-: Dictionary.com
  14. para-: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Para-, Para- (chemistry), Para (Bengali), Para (Indian Special Forces), Para (Special Forces), Para (community development block), Para (currency), Para: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Para-, Para: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. para, para-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Para: Rhymezone
  19. Para-, Para, para: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. para, para-: MyWord.info
  21. para, para-: FreeDictionary.org
  22. para: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. para, para, para-: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. para-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. para, para-: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. para: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Para- (prefix), Para: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  9. -para, para, para-: Medical dictionary
  10. Para- (prefix), Para: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PARA-, PARA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. para, para: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. para: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Para: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. para: Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
noun:  (medicine) A 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.
adjective:  (UK, Australia, slang) very drunk
noun:  (New Zealand) Synonym of king fern (“the plant Ptisana salicina”)
noun:  Clipping of paragraph. [A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.]
noun:  (military) Clipping of paratrooper. [A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft.]
noun:  (US, education, informal) Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
noun:  Clipping of paraplegic. [A person who suffers from paraplegia.]

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