paragraph
Americannoun
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a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
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a note, item, or brief article, as in a newspaper.
verb (used with object)
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to divide into paragraphs.
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to write or publish paragraphs about, as in a newspaper.
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to express in a paragraph.
noun
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(in a piece of writing) one of a series of subsections each usually devoted to one idea and each usually marked by the beginning of a new line, indentation, increased interlinear space, etc
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printing the character ¶, used as a reference mark or to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph
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a short article in a newspaper
verb
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to form into paragraphs
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to express or report in a paragraph
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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well-paragraphedadjective
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paragraphicallyadverb
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paragraphicadjective
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paragraphismnoun
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subparagraphnoun
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paragraphisticaladjective
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unparagraphedadjective
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has paragraphedperfect 3rd person singular
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have paragraphedperfect
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is paragraphingprogressive 3rd person singular
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are paragraphingprogressive
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am paragraphingprogressive 1st person singular
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have been paragraphingperfect progressive
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paragraphssingular 3rd person
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has been paragraphingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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paragraphingparticiple
Past
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had paragraphedperfect
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was paragraphingprogressive singular
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were paragraphingprogressive plural
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had been paragraphingperfect progressive
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paragraphedsimple
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paragraphedparticiple
Future
Etymology
Origin of paragraph
1515–25; earlier paragraphe < Greek paragraphḗ marked passage; see para- 1, graph
Explanation
A full page of text with no visible breaks is hard to read. That’s why you break your ideas up into groups of sentences, called paragraphs. Each paragraph contains logically connected sentences about one main idea. If your teacher asks you to write a paragraph on learning vocabulary words, you will write several sentences that describe how to learn vocabulary. Each sentence will add to the topic and will connect one to the other. The length of a paragraph will vary. Your teacher might require just three or four sentences to accurately describe vocabulary learning. Unless he’s a fan of James Joyce. Then your paragraph might need to extend for pages and pages.
Vocabulary lists containing paragraph
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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Write On!: Graph and Gram
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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