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• pas
  pas

  noun

  a step or series of steps in ballet.
• PA's
  PA's

  plural noun

  mountaineering a type of rock boot
• PAS
  PAS

  abbreviation

  physician-assisted suicide: a practice in which a terminally-ill person requests a medical practitioner to administer a lethal dose of medication

pas

American  

[pah] / pɑ /

noun

pas plural

1. a step or series of steps in ballet.

2. right of precedence.

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pas ¹ British  

/ pɑ, pɑː /

noun

1. a dance step or movement, esp in ballet

2. rare the right to precede; precedence

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PA's ² British  

plural noun

1. mountaineering a type of rock boot

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PAS ³ British  

abbreviation

1. physician-assisted suicide: a practice in which a terminally-ill person requests a medical practitioner to administer a lethal dose of medication

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• pas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of pas

1695–1705; < French < Latin passus. See pace ¹

Example Sentences

PAS has 55 seats in a 101-seat parliament, enough to form a new government on its own.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

The PAS is a member of the opposition bloc and the single biggest party in Parliament, as well as governing four of Malaysia’s 13 states.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

For this study, the research team performed multiple placental biopsies on 12 placentas -- six with PAS disorder and six controls -- conducting single-cell RNA analysis on 31,406 individual cells.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

Mr Jones said the finds recorded by the PAS "advance knowledge of past peoples, where and how they lived".

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

He takes the PAS of dukes and earls; all the nobility crowd to see him: I forget how many baronesses and duchesses fall in love with him.

From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace