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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

How come you kin feel that way, 'Lisses," he says, "w'en fur the pas' ten minutes you been preachifyin' agin the whole notion?

From J. Poindexter, Colored by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

They carried them home on their backs, taking turns, and Flaxie looked up only once to ask sleepily: “Is it ha’ pas’ two?”

From The Twin Cousins by May, Sophie

"Hit's jes' twenty minutes pas' eleven," said Bob Jones glancing at his watch.

From Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Thorne, Jack

“Didn’t I see you leavin’ de hotel las’ night ’bout half pas’ ’levin or a little later?”

From Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune by Stratemeyer, Edward

Den you ride pas’ yondah every day till fo’, five days, and den you see de ole man come scrape friend wid you.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington