PA

PA

abbr.

1. or Pa. Pennsylvania

2. physician's assistant

3. or P/A power of attorney

4. press agent

5. production assistant

6. prosecuting attorney

7. public-address system

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Pa ¹

The symbol for the element protactinium.

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Pa ²

abbr.

pascal

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pa  (pä)

n. Informal

Father; papa.

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[Short for papa.]

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pa ¹

Noun

Informal father

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pa ²

Noun

NZ (formerly) a fortified Maori settlement

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Pa

1. Chem protactinium

2. Physics pascal

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PA

1. Pennsylvania

2. personal assistant

3. public-address system

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Pa

1. Abbreviation of pascal

2. The symbol for protactinium.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pa - an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk dad, dada, daddy, papa, pappa, pop begetter, father, male parent - a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"
	2.	Pa - a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead atomic number 91, protactinium, protoactinium metal, metallic element - any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
	3.	Pa - a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter pascal pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit area
	4.	PA - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies Keystone State, Pennsylvania Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg - a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union University of Pennsylvania, Penn, Pennsylvania - a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Mid-Atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland Allentown - a city in eastern Pennsylvania; an industrial and commercial center Altoona - a town in central Pennsylvania Bethlehem - a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production Erie - a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania Gettysburg - a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery capital of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg - capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state Chester - a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia) City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia - the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania Pittsburgh - a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains - the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia Allegheny, Allegheny River - a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains - a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia Lehigh River - a river in eastern Pennsylvania that flows southeast into the Delaware River Monongahela, Monongahela River - a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River Susquehanna, Susquehanna River - a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay
	5.	PA - an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas P.A., P.A. system, PA system, public address system amplifier - electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it communication system - a system for communicating loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit, speaker - electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance tannoy - a loudspeaker

Translations

pa [pɑː] n (col) → papá m

pa [pɑː] n (inf) → papa m

pa [pɑː] (inf) n → Papa m

pa [pɑː] n (col) → papà m inv; babbo