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parcel

Pronunciation: [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ]

The English word “parcel” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport.
  2. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  3. An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
  4. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
  5. A group of birds.
  6. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  7. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  8. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

verb

  1. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  2. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
  3. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
  4. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.

adverb

  1. Part or half; in part; partially.

Etymology

From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.

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