para

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology.
• noun A copper coin of Servia (one centime).
• noun An abbreviation of Paraguay.
• noun A coin of the Turkish dominions, struck in silver and in copper, and current from the end of the seventeenth century.
• noun (pä′ rä). In the East Indies, a measure of capacity (at Bombay 3⅓ bushels); also, a measure of weight (at Ceylon from 30 to 50 pounds, according to the commodity, as coffee, pepper, rice, etc.).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Australia, slang very drunk
• noun A paratrooper.
• noun Formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
• noun medicine A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
• noun A paragraph.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
• noun 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia
• noun port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
• noun a soldier in the paratroops
• noun an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows