--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 6 description: The 1498 words of the English dictionary under P, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / P # P — The English dictionary · page 6 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* Papermaking is the craft or industry of making paper, usually from wood pulp, cotton, rags or recycled paper soaked in water, pressed into thin sheets and dried.[↗](../../papermaking/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Papermaking was invented in ancient China.[↗](../../papermaking/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In art we tried papermaking with old newspapers and water.[↗](../../papermaking/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The papermaking mill by the river used water power.[↗](../../papermaking/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Papermaking uses a lot of trees, so we recycle.[↗](../../papermaking/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The museum showed papermaking with cotton rags.[↗](../../papermaking/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Wasps make their nests by a kind of papermaking from chewed wood.[↗](../../papermaking/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We dried our papermaking sheets on the windowsill.[↗](../../papermaking/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **paperwork** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Forms, letters, reports and other papers that must be filled in or kept, especially for school, work or the government.[↗](../../paperwork/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The boring work of writing, filling in and sorting such papers, often seen as getting in the way of real work.[↗](../../paperwork/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) Any official record, even on a computer, such as online forms.[↗](../../paperwork/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dad stayed up late doing the paperwork for our new car.[↗](../../paperwork/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · You must hand in the paperwork before the school trip.[↗](../../paperwork/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet asked us to fill in some paperwork about our dog.[↗](../../paperwork/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mrs Lee had a mountain of paperwork on her desk.[↗](../../paperwork/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The police officer said the paperwork would take an hour.[↗](../../paperwork/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Each form in the paperwork had 4 pages, and there were 12 forms.[↗](../../paperwork/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Moving house means lots of paperwork.[↗](../../paperwork/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Ugh, more paperwork," groaned the coach.[↗](../../paperwork/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **papoose** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A papoose is a baby carried on its mother's back or in a cradle, wrapped tightly in cloth.[↗](../../papoose/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") The word is old and comes from a North American language.[↗](../../papoose/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Babies were swaddled tightly, like papooses.[↗](../../papoose/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The mother carried her papoose on her back.[↗](../../papoose/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Old books used the word papoose for a baby.[↗](../../papoose/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **papua** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Papua is the name of a large area in the western half of the island of New Guinea, now part of Indonesia.[↗](../../papua/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It is part of the name of the country Papua New Guinea, which is on the eastern half of the same island, north of Australia.[↗](../../papua/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Papua New Guinea is just north of Australia.[↗](../../papua/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · More than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.[↗](../../papua/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Birds of paradise live in the forests of Papua.[↗](../../papua/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We found Papua on the map of Indonesia.[↗](../../papua/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea.[↗](../../papua/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class read about the mountains of Papua.[↗](../../papua/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975.[↗](../../papua/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **papyrus** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tall water plant like a reed that grows by the River Nile.[↗](../../papyrus/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A kind of paper made from this plant by the ancient Egyptians.[↗](../../papyrus/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* An ancient document written on this paper.[↗](../../papyrus/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.[↗](../../papyrus/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Papyrus grows along the River Nile.[↗](../../papyrus/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We made our own papyrus in class from strips of paper.[↗](../../papyrus/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The scroll was rolled-up papyrus.[↗](../../papyrus/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The word «paper» comes from papyrus.[↗](../../papyrus/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Old pieces of the Bible were found on papyri.[↗](../../papyrus/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A papyrus, which is supposed to be "of the age of the nineteenth dynasty, about B.C.[↗](../../papyrus/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") 1300," has preserved an Egyptian tale about two brothers.[↗](../../papyrus/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters\![↗](../../papyrus/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.18.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../papyrus/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **par** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In golf, par is the number of strokes a good player is expected to need for a hole or a whole course.[↗](../../par/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «On a par with» means equal to or as good as.[↗](../../par/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «Up to par» means as good as it should be; «below par» or «under par» (not golf) means not as good or not as well as usual.[↗](../../par/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* «Par for the course» means normal or expected, usually for something annoying.[↗](../../par/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (money) Par is the normal stated value of something like a share.[↗](../../par/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* In French, par means "by", so a book title such as "Contes des Fees, par Madame d'Aulnoy" means the tales are by Madame d'Aulnoy.[↗](../../par/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Par for this golf hole is three.[↗](../../par/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She finished the round two under par.[↗](../../par/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · His homework wasn't up to par this week.[↗](../../par/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm feeling below par, so I'll stay home.[↗](../../par/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Rain on sports day is par for the course in Wales.[↗](../../par/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The new film is on a par with the first one.[↗](../../par/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our team is now on a par with the best in the league.[↗](../../par/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · \[Contes des Fees, par Madame d'Aulnoy.\][↗](../../par/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence.[↗](../../par/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../par/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Vincent in Jouraal Je Mathematiques Par Joseph Liouville Paris 1839 pp.[↗](../../par/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") 261-280 and in Kevue Archaolot'ique 18J5-184f) pp.[↗](../../par/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") 601-621.)[↗](../../par/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../par/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Ctt" mean, not tirst, second, third and fourth, but one, two, three and four, and these numbers them.'selTes are the ten Setiroth from which all letters of the aljdiabet '.par- (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../par/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **parable** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A parable is a short story with a lesson about how to live, especially one told by Jesus in the Bible.[↗](../../parable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Any simple story used to teach a moral or religious truth can be called a parable.[↗](../../parable/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Jesus told a parable about a farmer sowing seeds.[↗](../../parable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In the parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd leaves ninety-nine to find one.[↗](../../parable/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We acted out the parable of the Good Samaritan.[↗](../../parable/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The meaning of the parable is that everyone is our neighbour.[↗](../../parable/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our teacher asked us to write a modern parable.[↗](../../parable/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The parable of the lost son ends with a big party.[↗](../../parable/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Read the parable of the intrusted talent\![↗](../../parable/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And he took up his parable, and said: Alas, who shall live after God hath appointed him?[↗](../../parable/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.24.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../parable/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Wherefore they that speak in parables say: Come ye to Heshbon! let the city of Sihon be built and established\![↗](../../parable/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.21.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../parable/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear; give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor: (Torah NUM.23.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../parable/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And Job again took up his parable, and said: (Writings JOB.27.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../parable/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.[↗](../../parable/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.26.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../parable/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel, (Prophets EZK.17.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../parable/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **parachute** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A parachute is a large piece of cloth fixed to a person or thing by strings, which opens in the air and makes them fall slowly and safely.[↗](../../parachute/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To parachute is to jump from a plane and come down with a parachute.[↗](../../parachute/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The parachute opened and she floated down.[↗](../../parachute/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A parachute slows you down because of air resistance.[↗](../../parachute/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We made parachutes from plastic bags and string.[↗](../../parachute/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The bigger parachute took longer to fall.[↗](../../parachute/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Soldiers parachuted from the plane.[↗](../../parachute/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In PE we played games with a giant rainbow parachute.[↗](../../parachute/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Food was dropped by parachute to the village.[↗](../../parachute/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The rabbit was quite excited because he knew that he was to be taken up, and let down again in a parachute.[↗](../../parachute/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **parachutist** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who jumps from an aircraft and floats down using a parachute.[↗](../../parachutist/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The parachutist floated gently down to the field.[↗](../../parachutist/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Air resistance slows the parachutist down.[↗](../../parachutist/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The parachutist landed right in the middle of the target.[↗](../../parachutist/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our teacher was a parachutist for charity.[↗](../../parachutist/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We made model parachutists from paper and string.[↗](../../parachutist/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The parachutists jumped one after another from the plane.[↗](../../parachutist/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **parade** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A procession of people, bands or floats moving through the streets to celebrate something.[↗](../../parade/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A line of soldiers standing or marching for inspection.[↗](../../parade/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To walk or march in a parade.[↗](../../parade/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb) To show something off proudly so people will notice.[↗](../../parade/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (UK) A row of shops: «a shopping parade».[↗](../../parade/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We watched the St Patrick's Day parade.[↗](../../parade/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The band marched in the parade.[↗](../../parade/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Floats in the parade were covered in flowers.[↗](../../parade/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Stay with your family in the parade crowd.[↗](../../parade/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He paraded around in his new football kit.[↗](../../parade/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The soldiers stood on parade.[↗](../../parade/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't rain on my parade (spoil my fun).[↗](../../parade/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Laughter, shrieks, howls, catcalls, hand-clapping followed this parade.[↗](../../parade/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Tiii) vowels and consonants were made in the form of a "state and arranged like an army in battle array."[↗](../../parade/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") Isaac Taylor '\*i says: "Like soldiers on parade the characters in the alphabetic line have been dressed."[↗](../../parade/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../parade/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **paradise** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Paradise is a perfect, happy place, like a beautiful garden.[↗](../../paradise/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In many religions, paradise is heaven, a perfect place after life.[↗](../../paradise/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Paradise is also used in the names of places, birds and shops.[↗](../../paradise/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The garden was a paradise for birds.[↗](../../paradise/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · They went to Paradise Park.[↗](../../paradise/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The island is a paradise with 300 palm trees.[↗](../../paradise/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The toy shop was a paradise for my little brother.[↗](../../paradise/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A bird of paradise has long, bright feathers.[↗](../../paradise/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The beach looked like paradise.[↗](../../paradise/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the travellers searched for a lost paradise.[↗](../../paradise/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "We shall soon reach the garden of paradise now."[↗](../../paradise/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal Intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.[↗](../../paradise/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../paradise/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal In- telligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.[↗](../../paradise/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../paradise/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **paradox** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A statement or idea that seems to contradict itself or seems impossible, but may still be true.[↗](../../paradox/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A situation that has two opposite facts that both seem to be true.[↗](../../paradox/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (logic) A puzzle where reasoning leads to an impossible answer, such as "This sentence is false.".[↗](../../paradox/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* "This sentence is false" is a famous paradox.[↗](../../paradox/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · It's a paradox that the busiest people often have the most time to help.[↗](../../paradox/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The time machine story had a strange paradox.[↗](../../paradox/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · "Less is more" sounds like a paradox.[↗](../../paradox/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Zeno's paradox says a runner can never catch a tortoise, but in real life he does.[↗](../../paradox/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It was a paradox: the more she tried to sleep, the more awake she felt.[↗](../../paradox/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **paragraph** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A paragraph is a group of sentences about one main idea; it starts on a new line, often indented.[↗](../../paragraph/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Start a new paragraph for each new idea.[↗](../../paragraph/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The first paragraph should grab the reader's attention.[↗](../../paragraph/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Read the second paragraph again.[↗](../../paragraph/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · When someone new speaks, start a new paragraph.[↗](../../paragraph/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My story has five paragraphs.[↗](../../paragraph/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Underline the topic sentence of the paragraph.[↗](../../paragraph/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He read the paragraph to them, and added, ‘I wonder, now, whether that could be your bull-calf Peter?’[↗](../../paragraph/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · This idea is then symbolically explained in the next paragraph.[↗](../../paragraph/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../paragraph/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · \[paragraph continues\] Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.[↗](../../paragraph/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../paragraph/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · 44) This whole paragraph is an interpolation of an unknown hand, as it can be easily proved.[↗](../../paragraph/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../paragraph/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **parakeet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A parakeet is a small, often brightly coloured parrot with a long tail.[↗](../../parakeet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (USA) In the USA a budgerigar (budgie), kept as a pet in a cage, is often called a parakeet.[↗](../../parakeet/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our parakeet can say «hello».[↗](../../parakeet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A flock of green parakeets flew over the park.[↗](../../parakeet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The parakeet cracked a seed with its beak.[↗](../../parakeet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin in Ohio has a blue parakeet.[↗](../../parakeet/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Parakeets need clean water and fresh food every day.[↗](../../parakeet/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Wild parakeets now live in some British cities.[↗](../../parakeet/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The parakeet's long tail feathers were bright yellow.[↗](../../parakeet/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **parallax** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The way an object seems to move against a far background when you look at it from two different places, such as with one eye and then the other.[↗](../../parallax/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Hold up your thumb and close one eye, then the other — that jump is parallax.[↗](../../parallax/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Read the measuring cylinder at eye level to avoid parallax error.[↗](../../parallax/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Astronomers use parallax to measure distances to stars.[↗](../../parallax/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Video games use parallax to make backgrounds look far away.[↗](../../parallax/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Parallax helps our two eyes judge depth.[↗](../../parallax/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **parallel** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Parallel lines are straight lines that always stay the same distance apart and never meet, like train rails.[↗](../../parallel/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Parallel can mean happening at the same time or in the same way.[↗](../../parallel/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A parallel is a likeness between two things.[↗](../../parallel/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A parallel circuit gives the electric current more than one path.[↗](../../parallel/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A rectangle has 2 pairs of parallel sides.[↗](../../parallel/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Two parallel roads are 50 metres apart.[↗](../../parallel/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw a line parallel to this one.[↗](../../parallel/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many parallel sides does a square have?[↗](../../parallel/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Railway tracks are parallel.[↗](../../parallel/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In a parallel circuit, each bulb has its own path.[↗](../../parallel/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The lines on writing paper are parallel.[↗](../../parallel/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · There are parallels between the two stories.[↗](../../parallel/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · It must be noted that the term אמות is vocalized and translated here as אִמּוֹת immot 'Mothers', based on the parallel אָבוֹת avot 'fathers' of SY 3:2 and 6:1.[↗](../../parallel/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../parallel/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **parallelism** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side.[↗](../../parallelism/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below.[↗](../../parallelism/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../parallelism/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in \[Job 26:7\], where in a harkening back to \[Genesis 1:2\] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu.[↗](../../parallelism/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../parallelism/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **paralympics** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A big international sports competition for athletes with disabilities, such as athletes who are blind, use wheelchairs or have lost limbs, held after the Olympic Games every four years.[↗](../../paralympics/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Paralympics take place in the same city as the Olympics.[↗](../../paralympics/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She won a gold medal at the Paralympics in swimming.[↗](../../paralympics/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wheelchair rugby is one of the fastest Paralympic sports.[↗](../../paralympics/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched the Paralympics on TV at school.[↗](../../paralympics/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Paralympics began from games for injured soldiers in England.[↗](../../paralympics/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My hero is a Paralympian who runs with a blade.[↗](../../paralympics/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/5/) **6** [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/7/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) - ← previous: [page 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/5/) - next →: [page 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/7/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)