Added to
Favorites
Sign Up
Log In
Introducing a cool
new way to learn!
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Word Dynamo
Quotes
Reference
Translator
Spanish
Related Searches
Parenting
Nearby Words
pardubice
pardy
pare
pare away
pare down
pare off
parecious
paregmenon
paregoric
pareidolia
pareira
pareira brava
pareira-brava
pareja, juan de
parelcon
parelectronomic
parelectronomy
parella
parembole
paremptosis
paren
paren'thetical
paren.
parenchyma
parenchymal
parenchymatitis
parenchymatous
parenchymatous ...
parenchymatous ...
parenchymatous ...
parenchymatous ...
parenchymatous ...
parenesis
parenetic
parens.
parent
parent cell
parent company
parent compound
parent cyst
parent hood
paren
paren.
parenthesis.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
pa·rens
/
pəˈrɛnz
/
Show Spelled
[
p
uh
-
renz
]
Show IPA
plural
noun
Informal
.
parentheses:
The entire sentence should be in parens.
Origin:
by shortening
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To
paren
Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com
Searching for
paren
? How many words do you actually know?
FIND OUT
Remove ads like these. Upgrade now!
Quote Of The Day
"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."
-Catherine Drinker Bowen
MORE
Partners:
Word
Bloglines
Citysearch
The Daily Beast
Ask Answers
Ask Kids
Life123
Sendori
Thesaurus
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright ©
2012
. All rights reserved.
About
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
API
Careers
Advertise with Us
Contact Us
Help
Please
Login
or
Sign Up
to use the Favorites feature
Please
Login
or
Sign Up
to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT