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pais

/ˈpeɪ/

pais noun: the country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.

Noun (1)

pais (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.

Noun (2) capitalized: PAIS

PAIS (countable and uncountable, plural PAISs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of partial androgen insensitivity syndrome.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of post-acute infection syndrome.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of politics and international studies.

Proper noun capitalized: Pais

Pais (plural Paises)

  1. A surname.

Forms of pais

Noun
pluralPAISs
Proper noun
pluralPaises

Origin of pais

From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”).

Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Pais.

Words formed from pais

Phrases with pais

Questions about pais

What does pais mean?
Pais means the country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.
What part of speech is pais?
Pais can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pais?
Pais is pronounced /ˈpeɪ/.
What is the plural of pais?
The plural of pais is PAISs.

Words near pais in the dictionary

  1. pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram
  2. pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagrams
  3. pairwised
  4. pairwisely
  5. pairwork
  6. pais
  7. Pais effect
  8. paisa
  9. paisa vasool
  10. paisan
  11. paisana

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pais (page history and authors); PAIS (page history and authors); Pais (page history and authors). 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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