0 a short part of a text, consisting of at least one sentence and beginning on a new line. It usually deals with a single event, description, idea, etc.
1 a short part of a text that begins on a new line and consists of one or more sentences dealing with a single idea
2 one of the parts that a piece of writing is divided into, consisting of one or more sentences and beginning on a new line:
Can you pick out the three deliberate mistakes in this paragraph?
Cut that paragraph and then paste it at the end of the page.
Each new paragraph should be indented about two centimetres from the margin.
You just need to tweak the last paragraph and then it's done.
It begins with a short paragraph of acknowledgements.
One such application is reported in the following paragraphs.
The data were analysed as case studies and for common themes, as expressed in single words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even entire documents.
