paragraph

See also: Paragraph

English

Etymology

From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/, /ˈpɛɹəɡɹæf/

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• (Northern England, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɹəɡɹaf/
• Hyphenation: par‧a‧graph

Noun

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paragraph (plural paragraphs)

1. A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.

   opening paragraph

   final paragraph

   paragraph heading

   Divide the writing into paragraphs.

2. (originally) A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
3. A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
4. (computing) An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.

Derived terms

• hanging paragraph
• interparagraph
• lead paragraph
• multiparagraph
• paragraph break
• paragraph character
• paragrapher
• paragraphic
• paragraphism
• paragraphist
• paragraphize
• paragraphless
• paragraphlet
• paragraph mark
• paragraph marker
• paragraph sign
• reparagraph
• sentegraph
• sub-paragraph
• subparagraph

Translations

passage in text

Afan Oromo: keeyyata Afrikaans: paragraaf (af), alinea Albanian: paragraf (sq) m Arabic: فِقْرَة f (fiqra), بَنْد m (band) (legal) Armenian: պարբերություն (hy) (parberutʻyun) Assamese: দফা (dopha) Asturian: párrafu m Azerbaijani: abzas (az), paraqraf Belarusian: пара́граф m (paráhraf), абза́ц m (abzác) Bengali: অনুচ্ছেদ (bn) (onucched) Bulgarian: парагра́ф (bg) m (paragráf) Burmese: အပိုဒ် (my) (a.puid), ပိုဒ် (my) (puid) Catalan: paràgraf (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 段落 (dyun6 lok6) Mandarin: 段 (zh) (duàn), 段落 (zh) (duànluò), 自然段 (zìránduàn) Czech: odstavec (cs) m Danish: paragraf c, afsnit (da) n Dutch: alinea (nl) f, paragraaf (nl) m Esperanto: alineo (eo), paragrafo (in a legal document) Estonian: paragrahv (et), lõik (et) Finnish: kappale (fi), paragraafi French: paragraphe (fr) m, alinéa (fr) m Galician: parágrafo (gl) m Georgian: აბზაცი (ka) (abzaci), პარაგრაფი (ka) (ṗaragrapi) German: Absatz (de) m, Paragraph (de) m (legal) Greek: παράγραφος (el) f (parágrafos) Gujarati: ફકરો (gu) m (phakro) Hebrew: פִּיסְקָה \ פִּסְקָה (he) f (piská) Hindi: अनुच्छेद (hi) m (anucched), पैराग्राफ़ m (pairāgrāf) Hungarian: bekezdés (hu) Icelandic: málsgrein (is) f Ido: paragrafo (io) Indonesian: paragraf (id), alinea (id) Interlingua: paragrapho Irish: paragraf m, alt m, mír f Italian: paragrafo (it) m Japanese: 段落 (ja) (だんらく, danraku) Kazakh: абзац (abzas), азат жол (azat jol), параграф (paragraf) Khmer: វគ្គ (km) (vĕək),​ វោត (km) (voot)​ (rare) Korean: 단락(段落) (ko) (dallak) Kyrgyz: абзац (ky) (abzats), параграф (paragraf) Lao: ວັກ (wak), ປະລິເສດ (pa li sēt), ປະຣິເສດ (pa ri sēt) Latin: paragraphus m or f Latvian: rindkopa f, paragrāfs m Lithuanian: paragrafas m Macedonian: став m (stav), ставка f (stavka) Malay: perenggan (ms), paragraf Malayalam: ഖണ്ഡിക (ml) (khaṇḍika) Maori: whiti Mari: Eastern Mari: абзац (abzac) Middle English: paraf Mongolian: Cyrillic: догол мөр (dogol mör) Mongolian: ᠳᠣᠭᠤᠯ ᠮᠥᠷ (doɣul mör) Norwegian: Bokmål: avsnitt (no) n Nynorsk: avsnitt n Ottoman Turkish: فقره (fıkra) Persian: Iranian Persian: پاراگْراف (pârâgrâf), بَنْد (band) Polish: akapit (pl) m, paragraf (pl) m Portuguese: parágrafo (pt) m Romanian: paragraf (ro) n Russian: абза́ц (ru) m (abzác), пара́граф (ru) m (parágraf) Sanskrit: अनुच्छेद (sa) m (anuccheda) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: па̏сус m, пара̀граф m Roman: pȁsus (sh) m, paràgraf (sh) m Slovak: odsek m, odstavec m Slovene: odstavek m Spanish: párrafo (es) m, parágrafo (es) m, acápite (es) m Swedish: stycke (sv) n, avsnitt (sv) n (grammatical); paragraf (sv) c (law) Tagalog: talataan Tajik: параграф (paragraf), абзас (abzas), банд (band) Thai: อนุเฉท (à-nú-chèet), ย่อหน้า (th) (yɔ̂ɔ-nâa) Turkish: paragraf (tr), fıkra (tr) (law) Turkmen: abzas (tk), paragraf Ukrainian: пара́граф m (paráhraf), абза́ц (uk) m (abzác) Urdu: پَیراگْراف m (pairāgrāf), پَیراگِراف m (pairāgirāf) Uyghur: پاراگراف (paragraf), ئابزاس (abzas) Uzbek: paragraf (uz), xatboshi (uz), abzats (uz) Vietnamese: đoạn (vi) (段) Volapük: bagaf (vo) West Frisian: alinea

Verb

paragraph (third-person singular simple present paragraphs, present participle paragraphing, simple past and past participle paragraphed)

1. (transitive) To sort text into paragraphs.
2. (transitive, journalism) To publish a brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.

Translations

sort text into paragraphs

Galician: paragrafar (gl) Greek: παραγραφοποιώ (paragrafopoió) Italian: paragrafare Swedish: styckindela

See also

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