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pac

/pæk/

pac noun: a moccasin with a sole made of leather or deerskin. Also the alternative form of pack.

Noun (1)

pac (plural pacs)

  1. (Canada, US, originally) A moccasin with a sole made of leather or deerskin.
  2. (Canada, US) A pac boot.

Noun (2) capitalized: PAC

PAC (plural PACs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of programmable automation controller.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of proxy auto-config (file).
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of public accounts committee.
  4. (US, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of political action committee.
    • A PAC may contribute no more than $5,000 to a federal candidate in a general or primary election. PACs have grown to become the second-largest source of campaign funds, trailing only individuals (Herrnson 2004).2006, Peter L. Francia, The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 81
    • The new group, called Save America, is a federal fund-raising vehicle known as a leadership PAC that has donation limits of $5,000 per donor per year. […] In that sense, his PAC could become a fan-subsidized machine to perpetuate his agenda and plot his next moves. […] Leadership PACs are generally...2020 November 10, Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, Rachel Shorey, “Trump Starts PAC for Future Endeavors, Biden Will Speak on Obamacare Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of presentation-abstraction-control.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism, rhythmic gymnastics) Initialism of Pan American Championships.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: PAC

PAC

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Pacific (“Pacific Ocean”).

Adjective (1) capitalized: PAC

PAC (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, artificial intelligence) Initialism of probably approximately correct.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pac

Pac (plural Pacs)

  1. A surname.

Adjective (2) capitalized: Pac

Pac (not comparable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Pac. (abbreviation of Pacific)

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Pac

Pac

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Pac. (abbreviation of Pacific)

Proper noun (4) capitalized: PAc

PAc

  1. Proto-Algic (compare PA, PAn)
    • This seems to me to lead to the conclusion that any hypothesis involving connections earlier than the Algic level, given our standards for proof of historical connection, is inherently unprovable until we know Proto-Algic (PAc) better.1966, National Museum of Canada, Bulletin: Anthropological series, issue 78, page 4
    • […] PAc (Proto-Algic: Proulx 1984b).1984, Anthropological Linguistics, volume 26, page 434

Also used as

pac is also the alternative form of pack.

pac meaning in Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati and Odia

pac in Urdu

پی اے سی

pac in Punjabi

ਪੀ. ਏ. ਸੀ

pac in Gujarati

પી. એ. સી

pac in Odia

ପି. ଏ. ସି

Forms of pac

Noun
pluralpacs
pluralPACs
Proper noun
pluralPacs

Plural of pac: pacs

Origin of pac

Clipping of shoepac.

Various origins: * Borrowed from Polish Pac, a hypocoristic short form of several personal names, such as Paweł or Pakosław. * Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Pač, Páč, from a short form of the personal name Pačeslav. * Borrowed from Spanish Pac, a topographic surname from pac (“farmstead”). * Guatemalan surname, from a Castilianized form of a local Mayan word meaning "wooden spoon".

Words formed from pac

Phrases with pac

Words that rhyme with pac

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Questions about pac

What does pac mean?
Pac means a moccasin with a sole made of leather or deerskin.
What is pac in Urdu?
Pac in Urdu is پی اے سی. See Pac meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is pac?
Pac can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce pac?
Pac is pronounced /pæk/.
What is the plural of pac?
The plural of pac is pacs.

Words near pac in the dictionary

  1. pabulation
  2. pabulous
  3. pabulum
  4. pabulums
  5. PABX
  6. pac
  7. pac boot
  8. pac boots
  9. Pac Heights
  10. Pac Man
  11. Pac Men

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pac (page history and authors); PAC (page history and authors); Pac (page history and authors); PAc (page history and authors); pac (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pac (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pac (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pac (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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