Par Meaning
/pɑː/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAbbreviation of paragraph.
nounAbbreviation of parenthesis.
Sentence Examples
Your summary is not up to par.
This guarantees me par.
I am not feeling quite up to par.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The quality of this product is below the industry ____, so we must improve it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
His performance was below ____ this season, and the coach suggested he take a short break to recover.
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Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And this particular Chisolm — as the papers had spelled out in headlines and opening pars — had been a soldier, a corporal in the British Army."
— 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 419:
"It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well the toxic range of opinion encompassed by the term."
— 2017 November 16, Bret Stephens, “Steve Bannon Is Bad for the Jews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2017:
"Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth."
— 2009 January 18, “Paul Casey storms to four-stroke lead in Abu Dhabi”, in Herald Sun:
"Par with the hard heads and young offenders."
— 2007 May 21, “Sirens” (track 3), in Maths + English, performed by Dizzee Rascal:
"I par with the best, this is bars in the flesh."
— 2014 September 27, “Fire in the Booth”performed by Stormzy:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The quality of this product is below the industry ____, so we must improve it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
His performance was below ____ this season, and the coach suggested he take a short break to recover.