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parens

parens is the plural of paren.

Meaning of paren

Noun

paren (plural parens)

  1. (especially, informal) A parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text).

Phrases with parens

Questions about parens

What is parens the plural of?
Parens is the plural of paren.

Words near parens in the dictionary

  1. parenetic
  2. parenetical
  3. parenetically
  4. parengo
  5. Parenica
  6. parens
  7. parens patriae
  8. parent
  9. parent bug
  10. parent bugs
  11. parent class

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parens (page history and authors); paren (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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