Usually means: Father, informal term of address.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pa: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. PA, Pa, pa: Merriam-Webster
  3. PA, Pa, Pa, p.a, pa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. PA, Pa, Pa, p.a, pa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pa, p.a, pa: Collins English Dictionary
  6. P.A, PA, Pa, p.a, pa: Vocabulary.com
  7. PA, Pa, pa, pa, pa-, pA: Wordnik
  8. PA, p.a, pa: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pa, p.a, pa: Wiktionary
  10. p.a, pa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. PA, Pa, pa: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pa: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pa, .pa, p.a, pa: Dictionary.com
  14. pa: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pa: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. P.A. (group), PA, Pa (Javanese), Pa (cuneiform), Pa (disambiguation), Pa (element), Pa (name), Pa, .pa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pa: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. P.a, Pa: Rhymezone
  19. PA: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. P.A, PA, Pa, .pa, pa: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. p.a, pa: FreeDictionary.org
  22. p.a, pa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. PA, Pa, p.a: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. pa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. pa: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. p.a: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. PA: Accounting Glossary
  6. PA: Investopedia
  7. PA: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  8. Pa: Legal dictionary
  9. PA: Financial dictionary
  10. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pa: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PA: Netlingo
  3. P.A, Pa, pA: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. PA: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. PA (physician assistant), PA (posteroanterior): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. PA: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Pa: Medical dictionary
  8. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  9. PA (physician assistant), PA (posteroanterior): Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. PA: Custom License Plate Terms
  2. p.a, p.a, p.a: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. PA: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. PA: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. PA, Pa, pa: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  5. Pa: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pa, pa, PA: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. P.A, PA, PA, pa: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. PA, Pa: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  7. RF Terms Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See paing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (colloquial) Father, papa.
noun:  (colloquial) Grandpa, grandfather.
noun:  (New Zealand, now historical) A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.
noun:  (New Zealand) Any Maori village or settlement; a kainga.
noun:  (informal, in direct address) Father, dad, papa.
noun:  A short form of grandpa; grandfather.
noun:  Abbreviation of Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America. [A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia.]
noun:  Abbreviation of Papua, a province of Indonesia. [The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.]
noun:  Abbreviation of Pará, a state of Brazil. [A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Belém]
noun:  Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
noun:  (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algonquian. (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc) [(linguistics) The theoretical proto-language of the Algonquian languages.]
noun:  (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algic. (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian) [(linguistics) The theoretical, second-level proto-language of the Algic languages, spoken about 7000 years ago: the ancestor of Proto-Algonquian, Yurok, and Wiyot.]
noun:  (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Athapaskan.
noun:  Initialism of Prince Albert (“Saskatchewan city”). [A community of Nova Scotia, Canada.]
noun:  Initialism of public address.
noun:  Initialism of production assistant.
noun:  Initialism of personal assistant. [Someone whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks.]
noun:  Initialism of personal appearance. (when a celebrity visits a public event)
noun:  Initialism of power amplifier.
noun:  Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”). [A community of Nova Scotia, Canada.]
noun:  Initialism of public accountant.
noun:  (law) Initialism of public act.
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of physician assistant. [(capitalized when used as a person's title) A health care professional trained and licensed to perform a role similar to that of a physician but with somewhat narrower limits of authority; physician assistants and nurse practitioners have enough capabilities to be physician extenders, providing primary care and allowing physicians to spread their time across more patients.]
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of physician associate.
noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyamide. [(organic chemistry) Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.]
noun:  (chemistry) Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
noun:  Initialism of Peano arithmetic. [(logic) A set of axioms of first-order logic for the natural numbers specifying the operations of zero, successor, addition and multiplication, including a first-order schema of induction.]
noun:  (anatomy) Initialism of pulmonary artery. [(anatomy) The artery that connects the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.]
noun:  (Manitoba, Saskatchewan) Initialism of Parental Accompaniment. [(Manitoba) A former film classification advising that viewers under 15 years of age be accompanied by a parent or guardian.]
noun:  Initialism of precision agriculture. [A style of agricultural management based on observing, measuring and responding to inter- and intra-field variability in crops.]
noun:  (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points against.
adjective:  (medicine) Initialism of posteroanterior. [(anatomy) Posterior to anterior; back-to-front.]

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