All Definitions for Pa
Below are all the dictionary definitions of pa:
1Father, papa.
2Grandpa, grandfather.
3Any Maori village or settlement
4A kainga.
5A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.
6Father, dad, papa.
7A short form of grandpa
8Grandfather.
9Abbreviation of Pennsylvania: a state of the United States. [A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg. Largest city: Philadelphia.]
10Abbreviation 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.]
11Abbreviation of Pará: a state of Brazil. [A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Belém.]
12Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
13Initialism 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.]
14Initialism 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.]
15Initialism of Proto-Athabaskan. [An undocumented hypothetical language from which all the Athabaskan languages later emerged.]
16Initialism of Prince Albert: a city in Saskatchewan, Canada. [A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.]
17Initialism of public address.
18Initialism of production assistant.
19Initialism of personal assistant. [Someone whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks.]
20Initialism of personal appearance (when a celebrity visits a public event).
21Initialism of power amplifier.
22Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”). [A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.]
23Initialism of public accountant.
24Initialism of public act.
25Initialism of physician assistant. [(medicine) A health care professional trained and licensed to perform a role similar to that of a physician but with somewhat narrower limits of authority
26Physician assistants and nurse practitioners have enough capabilities to be physician extenders, providing primary care and allowing physicians to spread their time across more patients.]
27Initialism of physician associate. [Synonym of physician assistant]
28Initialism of polyamide. [(organic chemistry) Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units
29Examples include proteins and nylon.]
30Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
31Initialism 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.]
32Initialism of pulmonary artery. [(anatomy) The artery that connects the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.]
33Initialism of Parental Accompaniment. [(Manitoba) A former film classification advising that viewers under 15 years of age be accompanied by a parent or guardian.]
34Initialism of precision agriculture. [A style of agricultural management based on observing, measuring and responding to inter- and intra-field variability in crops.]
35Initialism of points against.
36Initialism of posteroanterior. [(anatomy) Posterior to anterior
37Back-to-front.]
About synonyms for pa
Finding the right synonym for pa helps writers avoid repetition and add precision to their work. Defined as "Father, papa.", pa has 0 alternatives that can fit different contexts and tones.
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