Meaning

A conference, especially one between enemies..

Definitions by Sense

1. A conference, especially one between enemies.
2. (intransitive) To have a discussion, especially one between enemies.

Example Sentences

We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain.

Without further parley Garland rode off up the hog's-back and the sheriff rode off down it [...]

In the highest-level parley of leaders of the two countries since the accident, President Obama is to meet with Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, on Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, after a nuclear security conference there, to discuss Afghanistan and other security issues.

[...] at day break we found the villaine, who, loath to parlee in fire and ſhot, fled amaine and left us [...]

"That is droll. Listen yet one time. You are very spiritual. Can you make a honorable lady of Her?" / "Don't be so malicious," says Mr. Bucket. / "Or a haughty gentleman of Him?" cries Madamoiselle, referring to Sir Leicester with ineffable disdain. "Eh! O then regard him! The poor infant! Ha! ha! ha!" / "Come, come, why this is worse Parlaying than the other," says Mr. Bucket. "Come along!"

Jack "parlayed" with them until he had completed his task, and then he closed the gate in their faces.

Mia is a teenage girl from Mexico who can read her mother’s mind. Akhil is a young man in New Jersey who is seeing things through other people’s eyes. And Lily parleys brain-to-brain with friends who are far away from where she lives in Georgia. According to The Telepathy Tapes, a 10-part audio series that is now one of the most popular podcasts in America, Mia, Akhil, and Lily are nonspeaking people with autism who have a special skill: They’re savants for ESP.

Word Forms

• parleys
• parleying
• parleyed
• parlay

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