paragraph
Syllables: par·a·graphUK/ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf//ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/
paragraph noun: a passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
Noun
paragraph (plural paragraphs)
- 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
- A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
- Much of its earliest foreign news came direct from the minister, and not seldom in his own hand. Louis XIII. took a keen, perhaps a somewhat childish, interest in the progress of the infant Gazette, and was a frequent contributor, now and then taking his little paragraphs to the printing office...1911, “Newspapers”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 572
- An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
Verb
paragraph (third-person singular simple present paragraphs, present participle paragraphing, simple past and past participle paragraphed)
paragraph meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
paragraph in Hindi
- passage in text
- अनुच्छेद anucched, पैराग्राफ़ pairāgrāf
paragraph in Tamil
- பத்தி
paragraph in Marathi
- परिच्छेद, परिच्छेदाचा, परिच्छेदाचे
paragraph in Urdu
- passage in text
- پَیراگْراف pairāgrāf, پَیراگِراف pairāgirāf
More languagesFewer languages
- paragraph in Bengali
- অনুচ্ছেদ onucched
- paragraph in Telugu
- పేరా, పేరాగ్రాఫ్, పారాగ్రాఫ్
- paragraph in Malayalam
- ഖണ്ഡിക khaṇḍika
- paragraph in Kannada
- ಅಧಿಕಾರ adhikāra
- paragraph in Punjabi
- ਪੈਰਾ
- paragraph in Gujarati
- ફકરો phakro
- paragraph in Odia
- ଅନୁଚ୍ଛେଦ, ଅନୁଚ୍ଛେଦର
- paragraph in Sanskrit
- अनुच्छेद anuccheda
- paragraph in Assamese
- দফা dopha
- paragraph in Nepali
- अनुच्छेद
- paragraph in Tagalog
- talataan
- paragraph in Arabic
- فِقْرَة fiqra, بَنْد band
- paragraph in Malay
- perenggan, paragraf
- paragraph in Indonesian
- paragraf, alinea
- paragraph in Thai
- อนุเฉท à-nú-chèet, ย่อหน้า yɔ̂ɔ-nâa
- paragraph in Vietnamese
- đoạn
- paragraph in Myanmar
- အပိုဒ် a.puid, ပိုဒ် puid
Examples of paragraph in a sentence
- Divide the writing into paragraphs.
- She glanced over a story very rapidly, and if it had too many solid, page-long paragraphs—reflections, descriptions, etc.—she put it sadly but steadfastly aside.1892, Agnes Repplier, “Conversation in Novels”, in Essays in Miniature, pages 59-60:
- After you plan your writing, you are ready to write your paragraph for the first time.2005, Jill Singleton, “Chapter 1: A Morning Person or a Night Person?”, in Writers at Work: The Paragraph (Student's Book), Cambridge...
Forms of paragraph
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | paragraphs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | paragraphs |
| present participle | paragraphing |
| past participle | paragraphed |
| past | paragraphed |
Origin of paragraph
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, “to write”). Doublet of paragraphos.
Words formed from paragraph
Phrases with paragraph
Questions about paragraph
- What does paragraph mean?
- Paragraph means a passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
- What is paragraph in Hindi?
- Paragraph in Hindi is अनुच्छेद (anucched), पैराग्राफ़ (pairāgrāf). See Paragraph meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use paragraph in a sentence?
- Divide the writing into paragraphs.
- What part of speech is paragraph?
- Paragraph can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce paragraph?
- Paragraph is pronounced /ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/ (UK).
- What is the plural of paragraph?
- The plural of paragraph is paragraphs.
Words near paragraph in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: paragraph (page history and authors); paragraph (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); paragraph (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paragraph (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ಅಧಿಕಾರ (Kannada) (page history and authors); paragraph (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paragraph (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paragraph (Nepali, 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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