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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishparagraf, fromMiddle Frenchparagraphe fromLatinparagraphus(“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), fromAncient Greekπαράγραφος(parágraphos), fromπαρά(pará,“beside”) andγράφω(gráphō,“I write”).Doublet ofparagraphos.

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paragraph (pluralparagraphs)

  1. A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
    openingparagraph
    finalparagraph
    paragraph heading
    Divide the writing intoparagraphs.
    • 1664,The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, to and With All and Every the Adventurers and All Such as Shall Settle or Plant There‎[1], And that the planting of the said province may be the more speedily promoted, paragraph V:
      All which land, and all other that shall be possessed in the said Province, are to be held on the same terms and conditions as is before mentioned, and as hereafter in the followingparagraphs is more at large express'd.
    • 1892, Agnes Repplier, “Conversation in Novels”, inEssays in Miniature‎[2], pages59-60:
      She glanced over a story very rapidly, and if it had too many solid, page-longparagraphs—reflections, descriptions, etc.—she put it sadly but steadfastly aside. If, on the contrary, it was well broken up into conversations, which always impart an air of sprightliness to a book, she said she was sure she would like it, and carried it off in triumph.
    • 2005, Jill Singleton, “Chapter 1: A Morning Person or a Night Person?”, inWriters at Work: The Paragraph (Student's Book),Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page10:
      After you plan your writing, you are ready to write yourparagraph for the first time. The first time you write aparagraph, it is called thefirst draft.
  2. (originally) A mark or note set in themargin to call attention to something in thetext, such as a change of subject.
  3. A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
    • 1911, “Newspapers”, inEncyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume19, New York, N.Y.:Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,page572:
      Much of its earliest foreign news came direct from the minister, and not seldom in his own hand. Louis XIII. took a keen, perhaps a somewhat childish, interest in the progress of the infantGazette, and was a frequent contributor, now and then taking his littleparagraphs to the printing office himself, and seeing them put into type.
  4. (computing) Anoffset of 16bytes inIntelmemoryarchitectures.

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Translations

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passage in text

Verb

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paragraph (third-person singular simple presentparagraphs,present participleparagraphing,simple past and past participleparagraphed)

  1. (transitive) Tosorttext into paragraphs.
  2. (transitive, journalism) Topublish abriefarticle,notice, orannouncement, as in anewspaper.

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sort text into paragraphs

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