Meaning

A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport..

Definitions by Sense

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. (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.

Example Sentences

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,

"Come, now," said the hill-man, "let us hear who else is to be at the christening?" "Ah," said the boy, "we are to have a great parcel of strangers and great people."

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• parcels
• parceling
• parcelling
• parceled
• parcelled

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When Should You Use Parcel?

Use parcel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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