pa

noun

ˈpä How to pronounce pa (audio)
Definition of panext
as in dad
a male human parent I cherish my memories of the times that I went fishing with my pa

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  1. dad
  2. father
  3. daddy
  4. papa
Noun
  • Remember, parents with kids this age are also the ones that are still living with their mom and dad, have to have coloring books and fidget toys at work to settle their nerves and focus and flat out refuse to grow up.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Every single person, apart from me and him and the guy who plays his dad, are all real people.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of dad
Noun
  • My 80-year-old mother and 87-year-old father were singing Hindu prayers to celebrate one of the most important holidays of our faith.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Lozano Garita is the father of her two youngest children, relatives said.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of father
Noun
  • Is class the best lens for understanding Hitler’s appeal, or is daddy worship?
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Still, there’s something to the earnestness with which the movie does finally have its daddy issues and its cetacean ones intersect.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of daddy
Noun
  • But her papa, Sasha, as Oleksandr was known, remains present in Yulianna and her mother’s life.
    — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In a time when companies are guilty of solely fostering young talent and offering legacy staff members early buyouts, aviation continues—at least at the employee level—to embrace wisdom from senior mamas and papas.
    — Joey Skladany, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of papa
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“Pa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pa. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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