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/ˈpaɹəsaŋ/ · noun
A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres..
To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart […].
We were told that we still had to drive six or sixty parasang.
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Parasang means A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart […].
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