P
- pa noun (pa, pas) — informal; abbreviation (p.a., Pa)
Pa is a word for father or dad, used mostly in old stories and in some families. - pace noun (pace, paces); verb (pace, paces, paced, pacing)
A pace is one step, or the length of one step. - pacify verb (pacify, pacifies, pacified, pacifying)
1) To make someone who is angry or upset become calm and quiet. 2) To bring peace to a place, often by force, ending fighting there. - pad noun (a pad, pads); verb (pad, pads, padded, padding)
A pad is a thick piece of soft material used to protect something or make it comfortable, like a knee pad. - paddle noun (a paddle, paddles); verb (paddle, paddles, paddled, paddling)
A short pole with a flat wide end, used to move a canoe or small boat through water. - pagan noun (a pagan, pagans); adjective (pagan)
1) (history) A pagan was a person who followed an old religion with many gods and goddesses, before Christianity or Islam spread, such as… - page noun (page, pages); verb (page, pages, paged, paging — to call someone by speaker or pager)
A page is one side of a sheet of paper in a book, a magazine or a notebook. - pail noun (a pail, pails)
1) A pail is a bucket: a round container with a handle for carrying water, milk or sand. - pain noun (a pain, pains; pain — uncountable); verb (pain — rare)
Pain is the feeling you have when part of your body is hurt or ill. - paint noun (paint, paints); verb (paint, paints, painted, painting)
Paint is a coloured liquid you put on things to colour them or protect them. - painted verb past and past participle (paint, paints, painted, painting); adjective (painted)
Painted is the past form of paint: colour was put on it. - pair noun (pair, pairs); verb (pair, pairs, paired, pairing)
A pair is two things of the same kind that go together: a pair of socks. - palace noun (a palace, palaces)
A very large, grand house where a king, queen, president or bishop lives. - palanquin noun (plural palanquins)
A covered seat or bed on poles, carried on the shoulders of servants, used in old times to carry a rich lady or prince. - palatal adjective
Having to do with the palate, the roof of the mouth, as with the sounds made there. - palate noun (a palate, palates)
1) Your palate is the roof of your mouth. 2) A person's palate is their sense of taste and what foods they like. - pale adjective (pale, paler, palest); verb (pale, pales, paled, paling); noun (a pale — rare; beyond the pale)
Pale describes a face or skin that has less colour than usual, often because someone is ill, scared or shocked. - paleness noun (paleness, uncountable)
The state of being pale: having a light colour or less colour than usual. - palm noun (a palm, palms); verb (palm, palms, palmed, palming — palm something off)
The palm is the inside of your hand, between your wrist and your fingers. - palpable adjective
Able to be touched or felt, and so easy to see or notice. - pamper verb
To treat someone too kindly and give them too much comfort or care. - pan noun (pan, pans); verb (pan, pans, panned, panning)
A pan is a metal pot for cooking food, often with a long handle, like a frying pan or saucepan. - panel noun (a panel, panels)
A flat piece of wood, glass, metal or other material that is part of a door, wall or other surface. - pang noun (a pang, pangs)
1) A sudden sharp pain or feeling. 2) A sudden strong feeling, like a pang of guilt or a pang of hunger. - pant verb (pant, pants, panted, panting); noun (a pant, pants — a quick breath); adjective (pant, in «pant leg», US)
To pant is to breathe fast and loudly with your mouth open, because you are hot, tired or excited. - panting verb form (pant, pants, panted, panting); also adjective (a panting dog)
Panting means breathing fast and loudly with your mouth open, usually after running or because you are hot. - paper noun (paper, papers); verb (paper, papers, papered, papering — cover walls with paper)
Paper is the thin material we write and draw on. - papyrus noun (papyrus — uncountable; a papyrus, papyri or papyruses)
A tall water plant like a reed that grows by the River Nile. - par noun (par, uncountable); idioms (on a par with, up to par, below par, par for the course)
In golf, par is the number of strokes a good player is expected to need for a hole or a whole course. - parable noun (a parable, parables)
A parable is a short story with a lesson about how to live, especially one told by Jesus in the Bible. - parade noun (a parade, parades); verb (parade, parades, paraded, parading)
A procession of people, bands or floats moving through the streets to celebrate something. - paradise noun (paradise; also a name: Paradise)
Paradise is a perfect, happy place, like a beautiful garden. - paragraph noun (a paragraph, paragraphs); verb (paragraph — rare)
1) A paragraph is a group of sentences about one main idea; it starts on a new line, often indented. - parallel adjective (parallel); noun (a parallel, parallels); verb (parallel — formal)
Parallel lines are straight lines that always stay the same distance apart and never meet, like train rails. - parallelism noun
A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side. - parapet noun (parapets)
1) A parapet is a low wall along the edge of a bridge, roof or tower, to stop people falling off. - parcel noun (a parcel, parcels); verb (parcel, parcels, parcelled/parceled, parcelling — parcel out, parcel up)
A thing or things wrapped in paper or put in a box so it can be sent by post or given to someone. - parched adjective (parched); also the past form of the verb parch (parch, parches, parched, parching)
Very dry because of heat and lack of rain: "parched fields". - pardon interjection (pardon? / pardon me); noun (a pardon, pardons); verb (pardon, pardons, pardoned, pardoning)
A word you say when you did not hear what someone said and want them to repeat it. - pare verb (pare, pares, pared, paring)
To cut away the thin outer skin or edge of something, such as fruit or nails, with a knife. - parent noun (parent, parents); verb (parent, parents, parented, parenting)
1) A parent is a mother or a father. 2) A parent is also any adult who brings up a child, like a step-parent or a foster parent. 3) To… - park noun (park, parks); verb (park, parks, parked, parking)
A park is a public green place with grass and trees where people play, walk and relax. - part noun (part, parts); verb (part, parts, parted, parting); adverb (part — partly)
1) A part is a piece of something bigger. A slice is a part of a cake. 2) A part is one piece of a machine: car parts. 3) A part is a role… - partake verb (partake, partakes, partook, partaken, partaking)
To eat or drink something, usually offered to you: "partake of the feast". - partial adjective (partial, more partial)
Partial means not complete; only part of something. - participant noun (a participant, participants)
1) A person who takes part in an activity, an event, a race, a game, a study or a competition. - participate verb (participate, participates, participated, participating); noun «participation», «participant»
1) To take part or join in an activity or event. 2) (formal) To share in something. - participle noun (a participle, participles)
A participle is a form of a verb used to make tenses or used like an adjective. - particle noun (a particle, particles)
A particle is a very small piece or bit of something: dust particles. - particular adjective (particular); noun (particulars — formal, details)
Particular means one certain thing, not any other: on that particular day. - partly adverb (partly)
1) Partly means not completely; to some degree, but not all. 2) Partly also means «in part, as one of the reasons», as in «partly because». - partner noun (partner, partners); verb (partner, partners, partnered, partnering)
A partner is a person who does something together with you, like a work or dance partner. - partridge noun (a partridge, partridges)
1) A plump brown bird that lives on the ground in fields and is sometimes hunted for food. - party noun (party, parties); verb (party, parties, partied, partying)
A party is a time when people meet to eat, play and have fun, like a birthday party. - pas adverb (French «pas» = not); noun (a pas — a step in ballet; plural pas); in phrases «faux pas», «pas de deux» — not an English word on its own
«Pas» means «not» in French, used with «ne»: «je ne sais pas» is «I don't know»; in casual French people often just say «pas». - pass verb (pass, passes, passed, passing); noun (a pass, passes)
To pass something is to give it to the next person. - passage noun (a passage, passages)
A passage is a narrow way, like a corridor or path, that you go along. - passed verb (pass, passes, passed, passing); also adjective (passed)
1) (literal) went past; moved by something. 2) (literal) succeeded in a test or exam. 3) (literal) gave something to someone (passed the… - passive adjective (passive; adverb: passively; noun: passivity); noun (the passive, grammar)
Passive means letting things happen to you without acting, reacting or taking part: «a passive audience». - passover noun (Passover — proper noun)
1) (Judaism) Passover is a Jewish spring festival that remembers how God freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt; families share a… - past noun (the past); adjective (past); preposition (past); adverb (past)
1) The past is time that has gone, before now. 2) Past (preposition) means going by something: he walked past the shop. 3) In telling… - pasture noun (a pasture, pastures; pasture — grassland); verb (pasture, pastures, pastured, pasturing)
A pasture is a field of grass where cows, sheep, horses or other animals graze. - pat verb (pat, pats, patted, patting); noun (a pat, pats); adverb (off pat — learned perfectly)
To pat means to touch someone or something gently and quickly with your flat hand, several times. - patch noun (a patch, patches); verb (patch, patches, patched, patching — patch up)
A patch is a small piece of material sewn or stuck over a hole or a worn place, like on the knee of jeans. - pate noun
The top of the head. - path noun (path, paths)
A path is a narrow way to walk on, through a park, garden or woods. - pathway noun (a pathway, pathways)
A path or track that people walk along, often through a garden, park or field. - patient adjective (patient, more patient, most patient); noun (a patient, patients)
Able to wait calmly without getting cross or upset. - patiently adverb
1) Patiently means in a calm way, waiting or working without getting cross, bored or upset. - patriarch noun (a patriarch, patriarchs)
The man who is the head of a family or tribe, often the oldest. - pattern noun (pattern, patterns); verb (pattern, patterns, patterned, patterning — rare)
A pattern is something that repeats in a rule, like red, blue, red, blue, or 2, 4, 6, 8. - paved adjective (paved); verb (pave, paves, paved, paving)
Paved means covered with a hard flat surface such as stones, bricks or asphalt, so people can walk or drive on it. - pavement noun (a pavement, pavements)
1) In British English, a pavement is the path at the side of a road for people to walk on (in American English, the sidewalk; in… - pavilion noun (a pavilion, pavilions)
A building beside a sports field, especially a cricket ground, where players change and rest. - paw noun (a paw, paws); verb (paw, paws, pawed, pawing)
A paw is the foot of an animal like a cat, dog, bear or rabbit, usually with claws and soft pads. - pax noun (pax — uncountable); interjection (pax! — old UK school slang)
1) (Latin) Pax is the Latin word for peace. 2) (history) Pax followed by a name, like Pax Romana, means a long time of peace kept by one… - pay verb (pay, pays, paid, paying); noun (pay)
To pay is to give money for something you buy or for work done. - pe noun abbreviation (PE — physical education)
1) PE is short for physical education, the school lesson where you do sport, games, gymnastics and exercise. - peace noun (peace — uncountable)
1) A time when there is no war or fighting. 2) Quiet and calm; no noise or worry. 3) Getting along with others without arguing. - peaceable adjective (peaceable, more peaceable, most peaceable); adverb peaceably
1) Not wanting to fight or argue; liking peace. 2) Calm and without fighting: «a peaceable meeting». 3) (church, Bible) The «peaceable… - peaceably adverb
In a calm, friendly way, without quarrelling. - peaceful adjective (peaceful, more peaceful, most peaceful)
Peaceful means calm and quiet, without noise or worry. - peacefully adverb
1) Peacefully means in a calm, quiet way. 2) Peacefully means without fighting or violence. 3) (euphemism) «Died peacefully» is a gentle… - peacock noun (a peacock, peacocks)
1) A peacock is a large male bird with a long, brilliant blue-green tail with «eye» patterns, which it spreads out in a huge fan to… - peak noun (a peak, peaks); verb (peak, peaks, peaked, peaking); adjective (peak)
A peak is the pointed top of a mountain, or a mountain with a pointed top. - peculiar adjective (peculiar, more peculiar, most peculiar)
Peculiar means strange or unusual, sometimes in a slightly worrying way. - peculiarity noun
A special feature that belongs to one thing or is strange about it. - pedestal noun
A base on which a statue, column or vase stands. - pedigree noun (a pedigree, pedigrees); adjective (a pedigree dog)
The list of an animal's parents, grandparents and earlier ancestors, showing it is of one pure breed. - peel verb (peel, peels, peeled, peeling); noun (peel)
To peel is to take the skin off fruit or vegetables. - peer noun (a peer, peers); verb (peer, peers, peered, peering)
To peer means to look very carefully or with difficulty at something, often narrowing your eyes or leaning forward. - peg noun (a peg, pegs); verb (peg, pegs, pegged, pegging)
A peg is a small hook or stick on a wall for hanging things, like coats. - pelican noun (a pelican, pelicans)
A pelican is a large water bird with a very long beak and a big stretchy pouch of skin under it, which it uses to scoop up fish. - pen noun (pen, pens); verb (pen, pens, penned, penning)
A pen is a tool for writing or drawing with ink. - pencil noun (pencil, pencils); verb (pencil — to write in pencil)
A pencil is a thin stick of wood with grey graphite (called «lead») or colour inside, for writing and drawing. - pendant noun
An ornament that hangs down, like a jewel on a chain or an earring. - pendent adjective
Hanging down, or depending on something else. - penknife noun
A small pocket knife with a folding blade, once used to cut quill pens. - pentecost noun (Pentecost — proper noun, uncountable)
1) (church) Pentecost is the Christian feast that remembers the Holy Spirit coming to Jesus' disciples, fifty days after Easter… - penury noun
Great poverty, having almost no money.
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