parcel

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English

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pärʹ-səl, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹsəl/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰaː.səɫ]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɑɹ.səɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)səl
• Hyphenation: par‧cel

Noun

parcel (plural parcels)

1. A package wrapped for shipment.

   Synonym: package
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.

   Synonym: plot

5. (obsolete) 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.
   • 1881, John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5, Part I, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 2,^[2]

     The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.

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See also

• lot
• allotment

Verb

parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)

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.

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Adverb

parcel (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

Further reading

• “parcel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “parcel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Placer, carpel, craple, placer

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpart͡sɛl]

Noun

parcel

1. genitive plural of parcela

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French parcelle (“parcel”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰɑˈsɛlˀ]

Noun

parcel c (singular definite parcellen, plural indefinite parceller)

1. parcel, lot (subdivided piece of land registred independently in official records)
2. (informal) detached house

   Synonym: parcelhus

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: par‧cel

Noun

parcel m (plural parcéis)

1. a shoal, a sandbank

   Synonyms: vau, vado, baixo, baixio, esparcel, restinga, sirte