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parabases

parabases is the plural of parabasis.

Meaning of parabasis

Noun

parabasis (plural parabases)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) The part of an Ancient Greek comedy in which the actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly.

Questions about parabases

What is parabases the plural of?
Parabases is the plural of parabasis.

Words near parabases in the dictionary

  1. parabasal
  2. parabasalian
  3. parabasalians
  4. parabasalid
  5. parabasalids
  6. parabases
  7. parabasilid
  8. parabasis
  9. parabasisphenoid
  10. parabasisphenoids
  11. parabeik

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parabases (page history and authors); parabasis (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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