One of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line.

Roget 51: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.    piece [Fr.], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop^†, slice, scale; lamina etc. 204; small part; morsel, particle etc. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share etc. (allotment) 786.    debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta^†; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part etc. 56; sarmentum^†.    compartment; department etc. (class) 75; county etc. (region) 181.    ... show more

Roget 593: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule^†; tract, tractate^†; livret^†; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion^†, circular, publication; chap book.    part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.    paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet^†; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream.    [subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.    folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo^†, sextodecimo^†, octodecimo^†.    encyclopedia; encompilation^†.    [collection of books] library, bibliotheca^†.    press etc. (publication) 531.    [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595.    [person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.], essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker^†, diaskeaust^†, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor^†; playwright etc. 599; poet etc. 597.    bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^†, bibliopolist^†; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.    knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning etc. (knowledge) 490.    ... show more

Roget 527: information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge etc. 490; publicity etc. 531; data etc. 467.    communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqu_e; representation, round robin, presentment.    case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news etc. 532; return etc. (record) 551; account etc. (description) 594; statement etc. (affirmation) 535.    mention; acquainting etc. v.; instruction etc. (teaching) 537; outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.    informant, authority, teller, intelligencer^†, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece; informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard^†, spy, newsmonger; messenger etc. 534; amicus curiae [Lat.].    valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum [Lat.]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary etc. (journey) 266.    hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition^†, cue, byplay; gesture etc. (indication) 550; gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Lat.], a word to the wise; insinuation etc. (latency) 526.    information theory.    [units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword [Comp.], quad word, paragraph, segment.    [information storage media] magnetic media, paper medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.    ... show more

Roget 566: phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence, paragraph; figure of speech etc. 521; idiom, idiotism^†; turn of expression; style.    paraphrase etc. (synonym) 522; periphrase etc. (circumlocution) 573; motto etc. (proverb) 496^†.    phraseology etc. 569.    ... show more

Dutch: alinea, paragraaf
Polish: akapit

Divide into paragraphs, as of text.

Write about in a paragraph.

Write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher.