paragraphnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpær.ə.ɡrɑːf/us/ˈper.ə.ɡræf/written abbreviation paraB1 a short part of a text, consisting of at least one sentence and beginning on a new line. It usually deals with a single event, description, idea, etc.
Examples
- Can you pick out the three deliberate mistakes in this paragraph?
- Cut that paragraph and then paste it at the end of the page.
- Now turn to page 23 and look at the first paragraph.
- Each new paragraph should be indented about two centimetres from the margin.
- You just need to tweak the last paragraph and then it's done.
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Pieces of writing
- acrostic
- caption
- creative writing
- doodle
- encomium
- excerpt
- fair copy
- fair sth out
- jottings
- manuscript
- microblog
- ms
- passage
- record
- squiggle
- subheading
- text
- transcription
- typescript
- writing
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