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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

To open her second mixed bill, Ms. Jaffe chose “Raymonda: Grand Pas Hongrois.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

It had departed from El Pas, Texas and was flying to Oxnard, California.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

I then go to see my personal trainer at South Pas Fitness.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

He will stage a suite of dances from Petipa’s full-length “Paquita” that incorporates the “Minkus Pas de Trois,” Balanchine’s restaging of the ballet’s pas de trois.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024

At last the Putnam anchored at Tully Pas.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham