parcel

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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. (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.

Verb

1. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
2. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
3. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
4. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.

Adv

Part or half; in part; partially.

Sinonieme

package

📦

packet

bundle

pack

lot

plot

portion

tract

section

wrap up

bale

parcel of land

piece

wrap

piece of ground

share

divide

piece of land

strip

clump

belongings

fragment

bundle up

wrapping

site

swag

segment

area

clothing

roll

partially

district

land

instalment

batch

knot

🪢

cutting

covering

chop

cover

container

carton

constituent

consignment

furl

flock

component part

component

belt

field

Vertalings

Paket

paquet

pacchetto

📦

pacco

paquete

colis

pacote

📦

pakje

parcelle

πακέτο

Päckchen

δέμα

paquet

parcela

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpɑɹsəl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: parcel

In summary

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.