Definitions for paragraph

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paragraph par·a·graph

Spelling: [par-uh-graf, -grahf]

IPA: /ˈpær əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/

Paragraph is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in paragraph (aaaghpprr).

Definitions for paragraph

noun

1. a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
2. a paragraph mark.
3. a note, item, or brief article, as in a newspaper.

verb (used with object)

1. to divide into paragraphs.
2. to write or publish paragraphs about, as in a newspaper.
3. to express in a paragraph.

Origin of paragraph

1515-25; earlier paragraphe Greek paragraphḗ marked passage; see para-¹, graph

Examples for paragraph

Here and there a paragraph was marked, and leaves dog's-eared.

The Times of to-day has a paragraph on the big trees of California.

It goes on like that for another half a paragraph, but you get the idea.

Fineman enumerates “15 Reasons Why American Politics Has Become An Apocalyptic Mess,” each summarized in just one paragraph.

So—most of these stories are vignettes: short shorts, sketches, lightning flashes of fiction that last only a paragraph or two.

She cannot love him, or she could not be thinking of a paragraph in the newspaper at this moment.

And writers seem to get it a lot, the relationship between words and page and phrase and paragraph, or stanza.

If the story fell apart by the first paragraph, it would not save itself by the end.

As it's so serious the paragraph shall go in, I promise you.

Before returning it to his pocket he stole a glance at the last lines of a paragraph.