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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishparcel, fromOld Frenchparcelle(“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), fromLate Latinparticella, diminutive ofLatinparticula(“particle”), diminutive ofpartem(“part, piece”).Doublet ofparticle.

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Noun

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parcel (pluralparcels)

  1. Apackage wrapped forshipment.
    Synonym:package
    I saw a brown paperparcel on my doorstep.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, chapter II, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC:
      At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paperparcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
    • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e.,Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, inThe Case of Miss Elliott, London:T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published1905,→OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909,OCLC11192831, quoted inThe Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
      “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 largeparcels done up in American cloth.[…]”
  2. An individualconsignment ofcargo forshipment, regardless of size and form.
  3. An individual item appearing on aninvoice orreceipt (only in the phrasebill of parcels).
  4. Adivision of land bought and sold as a unit.
    Synonym:plot
    I own a smallparcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
  5. (obsolete) Agroup ofbirds.
  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 apastry.
  8. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
    A certain piece of land is part andparcel of another piece.
    • 1731,John Arbuthnot, chapter 4, inAn essay concerning the nature of aliments‎[1], London: J. Tonson, page85:
      The same Experiments succeed on twoParcels 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,[2]
      Theparcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.
    • 1982 April 3, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, inGay Community News, page15:
      I don't think we are sitting pretty / So far away from our fair city / But I love you more than anyparcel of earth.

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Translations

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package wrapped for shipment
division of land bought and sold as a unit
indiscriminate number, collection, group

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Verb

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parcel (third-person singular simple presentparcels,present participleparcelingorparcelling,simple past and past participleparceledorparcelled)

  1. Towrap something up into the form of apackage.
  2. To wrap astrip around the end of arope.
    Worm andparcel with thelay; turn andserve the other way.
  3. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often withoff,out orinto.
    • c.1593 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii]:
      Their woes areparcell’d, mine are general.
    • 1665 (first performance),John Dryden,The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] forH[enry] Herringman […], published1667,→OCLC, Act I, scene ii,page12:
      Thoſe ghoſtly Kings wouldparcel out my pow’r, / And all the fatneſs of my Land devour;
    • 1806, [Thomas Maurice],Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, […] of Hindostan: […] , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical Divisions of Hindostan, London: Printed […] by C. & W. Galabin […] and sold by John White […] , pages231–232:
      Hindostan was thenparcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.
    • 1864,Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, inEnoch Arden, etc.‎[3], London: Edward Moxon, pages94–95:
      Then the great Hall was wholly broken down, / And the broad woodlandparcell’d into farms;
  4. To add a parcel or item to; toitemize.

Translations

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to wrap into a package
to wrap a strip around the end of a rope
to divide and distribute by portions

Adverb

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parcel (notcomparable)

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

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parcel

  1. genitiveplural ofparcela

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchparcelle(“parcel”), fromLate Latinparticella, diminutive ofLatinparticula(“particle”), diminutive ofpartem(“part”).

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parcel c (singular definiteparcellen,plural indefiniteparceller)

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

Declension

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Declension ofparcel
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativeparcelparcellenparcellerparcellerne
genitiveparcelsparcellensparcellersparcellernes

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  • Hyphenation:par‧cel

Noun

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parcel m (pluralparcéis)

  1. ashoal, asandbank
    Synonyms:vau,vado,baixo,baixio,esparcel,restinga,sirte
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