Parcel
Definitions
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A group of birds.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
Equivalents
Examples
“I saw⟳ a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.”
“At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come⟳ out. They[…]eat⟳ the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.”
““H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see⟳ the curtain fall⟳ for the third time on what […] will prove⟳ a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last⟳ Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park⟳ Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]””
“I own⟳ a small parcel of land⟳ between the refinery and the fish⟳ cannery.”
“[…] this youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand⟳ at my bestowing,”
“[…] instead of sitting (as she ought to have⟳ done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run⟳ up into the gallery, and sit⟳ with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own⟳ age […]”
“A certain piece of land⟳ is part and parcel of another piece.”
“The same Experiments succeed⟳ on two Parcels of the White of an Egg […]”
“1881, John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5, Part I, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 2, The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.”
“I don't think⟳ we are sitting pretty / So far away from our fair city / But I love⟳ you more than any parcel of earth.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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