Meaning of Parcel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A package wrapped for shipment.
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.
   obsolete
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.

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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.”

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