paracord

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — para sits at #7,359Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Paracord is very strong thin cord useful for a hundred jobs. A length of paracord.

It was made for parachute lines and holds about two hundred and fifty kilograms. Paracord has seven inner strands that can be pulled out and used separately.

Definitions of paracord

1nounparacordVery strong thin cord useful for a hundred jobs.C1
“Two metres of paracord held the whole tent through the night.”

paracord is a cord.

Where it comes from

A shortening of parachute cord; the type numbered 550 was made for American parachute rigging in the Second World War and passed into civilian use.

Persian
پاره
ota
پاره
Serbo-Croatian
pàra//па̀ра
English
para
English, today
paracord

From para + cord. para Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra//па̀ра, from ota پاره, from Persian پاره.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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