Paralympiann.
/ˌparəˈlɪmpɪən/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈlɪmpiən/ A participant in the Paralympics.
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1964 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Korea ed.) 15 Nov. 4/3 (headline) As Paralympian war hero still serves country.
1982 E. Owen Playing & coaching Wheelchair Basketball (back cover) Ed Owen—All-America performer, coach of a national championship team, five-time Paralympian.
1992 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 Oct. 5/7 Australia's Paralympians were welcomed as heroes yesterday when thousands of Sydneysiders saluted their achievements in the country's first tickertape parade to honour disabled athletes.
2000 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 9/1 The paralympian also won the Helen Rollason award for ‘outstanding achievement in the face of adversity’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- to happen into
- to happen of
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- to hard a person's heart
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- to harness
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- to harp upon, on of, a, one, the same string
- to harrow hell
- to harsh one's mellow