Meaning

8 senses

  1. A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport.

    I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.

    Paket

    посы́лкаposýlka, паке́тpakét, бандеро́льbandɛrólʹ

    поси́лкаposýlka

    a wrapped container

  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.

    I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.

    Parzelle

    уча́стокučástok

  5. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.

  6. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.

  7. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

    A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

  8. (obsolete)A group of birds.

Examples

130 sentences

  1. This parcel is addressed to you.

    ruЭта посылка адресована вам. — Yanka

    deDieses Päckchen ist an dich adressiert. — Manfredo

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  2. I mailed a parcel to Tom.

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  3. The parcel weighs more than one pound.

    ruПосылка весит больше одного фунта. — Lenin_1917

    deDas Päckchen wiegt mehr als ein Pfund. — Manfredo

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  4. Will you mail this parcel for me?

    deWürdest du für mich dieses Paket aufgeben? — Tamy

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  5. The address on this parcel is wrong.

    ruАдрес на этой посылке неправильный. — sharptoothed

    deDie Adresse auf diesem Päckchen ist falsch. — al_ex_an_der

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
package wrapped for shipment:
Русский
By meaning 2
package wrapped for shipment:
division of land bought and sold as a unit:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
package wrapped for shipment:
division of land bought and sold as a unit:

Origin

From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a

From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.

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Forms

plural: parcels
Singularparcel
Pluralparcels

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
packageB1plotB2
Close in meaning
  • the allotment of some amount by dividing something:portionshare
  • a wrapped container:package
  • a collection of things wrapped or boxed together:packagebundlepacket
  • an extended area of land:tractpiece of landpiece of groundparcel of land

Word family

24 related words
RelatedpartA2particleB2particularB2lotA2allotmentC2particulate
Derivedair parcelinterparcelmultiparcelparcel bombparcelcopterparcelfulparcel giltparcellateparcellationparcel lockerparcel outparcel-poetparcel postparcel shelfparcel tapeparcel upparcelwiseunparcel

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
parasitismparasolparatrooperB2parchparchmentpardonA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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