par

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of paragraph.

   “And this particular Chisolm — as the papers had spelled out in headlines and opening pars — had been a soldier, a corporal in the British Army.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of parenthesis.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of parish.
4. (countable, uncountable)Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.

   “It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well the toxic range of opinion encompassed by the term.”

5. (countable, uncountable)Equality of condition or circumstances.
6. (uncountable)The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.

   “He needs to make this shot for par.”

7. (countable)A hole in which a player achieves par.

   “Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth.”

8. (UK, countable, uncountable)An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
9. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”).
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of periodic automatic replenishment: in inventory control, a fixed quantity of an item that must be kept on hand to support daily operations.
11. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of photosynthetically-active radiation.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of precision approach radar.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of phased-array radar.
14. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of pseudoautosomal region.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of personnel accountability report.

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of parallel.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of planed all round: of timber, planed on all sides as opposed to rough sawn.

prep

1. (in-compounds)By; with.

verb

1. (transitive)To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.

   “He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.”

2. (Multicultural-London-English)To associate, to chill, to hang.

   “Par with the hard heads and young offenders.”

   “I par with the best, this is bars in the flesh.”

   “Don't par wih a broke boy, I'll do the most.”

name

1. A village and beach in Tywardreath and Par parish, east of St Austell, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0753).
2. (Philippines, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Philippine Area of Responsibility.