paragraph
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United States//ˈpæɹəɡɹæf//
- Australia//ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf//
- //ˈpɛɹəɡɹæf//
- //ˈpaɹəɡɹaf//
A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
noun
- 1
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
paragraph heading
Divide the writing into paragraphs.
- 2
A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- 3
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 himself, and seeing them put into type.
- 4
An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
Etymology
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.
verb
- 1
To sort text into paragraphs.
- 2
To publish a brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
Forms
- plural
- paragraphs
- past tense
- paragraphed
- past participle
- paragraphed
- present participle
- paragraphing
- third person singular
- paragraphs
paragraph · A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
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