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paras

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noun

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The correct spelling is paras. A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.

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Definition

noun

  1. 1.A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
  2. 2.A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
  3. 3.A paratrooper.
  4. 4.A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
  5. 5.A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.

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