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Definition: PAIS |
PAISNoun1. The country; the people of the neighborhood. |
Date "PAIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
"PAIS" is a common misspelling or typo for: pads, paid, pains, pals, pans, pass. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PAIs | English | PA inhibitors | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: PAIS |
| Specialty definitions using "PAIS": malpais. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PAIS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (country, land), Portuguese (dads, parent, parents), Welsh (coat, petticoat). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Descenso del pais de la noche (1974) Pais Quadrados... Filhos Avançados (1970) Pais... Ciao (1956) Pais de leyenda Las Hurdes (1922) En el pais de nunca jamas (1992) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hiking party in the El Mal Pais recreation area, in the Autumn, heading toward a paleontological site in southeastern New Mexico. Credit: Unknown. |  | Wide open view of desert-like expanse of West El Mal Pais Wilderness in western New Mexico. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Proteger La Niñez Del Pais Para Un Mañana Mejor : Cariño Es.... Vacunar A Su Niño. / Jorge Cormbra(?). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Argentina mundial 78 : o campeonato num pais prisao. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Queremos e podemos reconstruir o pais : vota PS. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Church tower 2" by L L Commentary: "Church tower in the Basque Country, Spain. Pais Vasco, Espana." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Regional governments – in particular those of Catalunya (Barcelona), Pais Vasco, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands – want to be responsible for the administration and maintenance of the airports located in their regions. (references) | |
The remaining USD $3.15 billion will be used to reduce capacity and operational difficulties in the Malaga, Alicante and Almeria city airports (all three are considered key “tourism” airports); adapt the airports of Pais Vasco, Navarra, Galicia, Aragon, Cantabria and Asturias to their new capacity levels; and improve the quality of the airports in the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Melilla. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Morocco | In December the authorities confiscated an issue of the Spanish publication El Pais. (references) |
Colombia | Francisco "Pancho" Santos, editor of the family-run El Tiempo, the country's largest newspaper, and founder of the Pais Libre antikidnaping organization and the national "No More" antiviolence civic campaign, remained in exile at year's end. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | According to the Free Country Foundation (Fundacion Pais Libre), 3,041 persons, or 8 persons per day, were kidnaped during the year, compared with 3,706 in 2000. Paramilitary groups kidnaped 9 percent of these persons. (references) |
Political Economy | Argentina | In April 1994, a number of left-of-center politicians joined with former Peronists to create the National Solidarity Front (Frente para un Pais en Solidaridad), or FREPASO. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PAIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "PAIS" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 87.5% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PAIS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pais | Last name | 300 | 24,346 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "PAIS": Act in pais. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PAIS": old-pais. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
el pais | 748 | alice das maravilhas no pais | 19 |
cali el pais | 132 | digital el pais | 18 |
diario el pais | 122 | el newspaper pais uruguay | 17 |
diario el pais uruguay | 68 | e filhos pais | 17 |
dia dos pais | 67 | cali el pais periodico | 16 |
pais | 57 | el newspaper pais spain | 15 |
pais vasco | 53 | cali diario el pais | 13 |
alicia en el pais de las maravillas | 53 | cuba de pais | 12 |
colombia el pais | 49 | universidad del pais vasco | 12 |
cali.com el pais | 42 | argentina pais | 12 |
el pais periodico | 41 | colombia diario el pais | 11 |
cali colombia el pais | 36 | cali colombia el pais periodico | 11 |
pais riesgo | 30 | italia pais | 11 |
joao pais pedro | 28 | cali de el pais | 11 |
de locos pais | 25 | chile pais | 11 |
mal pais | 22 | colombia el newspaper pais | 10 |
mal pais costa rica | 22 | com el pais | 10 |
joão pais pedro | 22 | el espana pais | 10 |
el nuevo pais | 22 | josh pais | 10 |
el pais uruguay | 20 | el newspaper pais | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "PAIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | Juriu (inquest, jury), Juraţi (jury, panel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PAIS": paisa, paisan, paisana, paisanas, paisano, paisanos, paisans, paisas, paise, paisley, paisleys. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "PAIS": charpais. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PAIS" (pronounced 'Pa`is'): Aerotaxis. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pias. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ais, asp, pas, pia, pis, psi, sap, sip, spa. | |
-2 letters: ai, as, is, pa, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: aphis, apish, apsis, aspic, aspis, lapis, nipas, padis, paiks, pails, pains, pairs, paisa, paise, paris, pavis, pians, picas, pikas, pimas, pinas, pitas, psoai, sapid, sepia, spahi, spail, spait, spica, tapis. | |
+2 letters: aphids, apices, aspics, aspire, aspish, capias, capris, capsid, dipsas, espial, inspan, lapins, limpas, lipase, milpas, mishap, okapis, paints, paisan, paisas, palais, palish, panics, papist, paries, parish, parvis, passim, pastie, pastil, pastis, patins, patios, patois, pavins, pavise, petsai, phasic, phasis, phials, pianos, pibals, pietas, pilafs, pilaus, pilaws, pinnas, pintas, pipals, pitsaw, pizzas, plaids, plains, plaits, poisha, praise, praxis, primas, ptisan, raphis, rapids, rapist, ripsaw, salpid, scampi, sepias, spadix, spahis, spails, spaits, sparid, spavie, spavin, spicae, spicas, spinal, spiral, spirea, spital, sprain, tapirs. | |
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