parcel
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Medieval Latin particella, contr. parcella (“a parcel”), dim. of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
parcel (plural parcels)
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
- (obsolete) A group of birds.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
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[edit] Derived terms
- parcel bomb
- parcel out
- parcel post
- parcel together
- parcel up
- parcellate
- parcellation
- part and parcel
- pass the parcel
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[edit] Translations
package wrapped for shipment
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division of land bought and sold as a unit
[edit] See also
[edit] Verb
parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)
[edit] Translations
to wrap into a package
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to wrap a strip around the end of a rope
[edit] External links
- parcel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- parcel in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
