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PIRA

PIRA is the initialism of Provisional IRA.

Meaning of Provisional IRA

Proper noun

the Provisional IRA

  1. An Irish republican paramilitary force split from the Irish Republican Army in 1969.
    Synonyms:
    Provos

Proper noun capitalized: Pira

Pira

  1. A locality in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia

Questions about PIRA

What does PIRA mean?
PIRA means a locality in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia.
What is PIRA the initialism of?
PIRA is the initialism of Provisional IRA.
What part of speech is PIRA?
PIRA is a proper noun.

Words near PIRA in the dictionary

  1. piquing
  2. piqué
  3. piqués
  4. pir
  5. Pir Panjal Range
  6. PIRA
  7. piracatinga
  8. piracetam
  9. pirachkich
  10. pirachkichs
  11. piracies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PIRA (page history and authors); Pira (page history and authors); Provisional IRA (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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