parcel

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

package

📦

packet

bundle

pack

lot

plot

portion

tract

section

strip

share

piece

piece of ground

piece of land

wrap

parcel of land

divide

bale

wrap up

area

belongings

partially

site

bundle up

district

instalment

swag

knot

🪢

land

clothing

fragment

wrapping

clump

roll

batch

segment

field

flock

furl

gather

gift

🎁

ground

group

herd

inclusion

ingredient

item

limb

mete

morsel

part

packaging

paper-bag

parcel post

partition

partly

passage

patch

plot of land

precinct

premises

present

rake in

realty

region

roll up

scrap

scroll

📜

sector

sending

set

sheaf

shipment

shroud

slice

slip

small packet

snatch

soil

sphere

swathe

territory

tome

truss

volume

way

wrapped

yard

zone

fardel

gather in

territorial dominion

wire coil

large bundle

movement

beat

belt

bind

bit

block

bunch

carton

chop

circuit

clean up

cleave

clot

column

compass

🧭

component

component part

consignment

constituent

container

cover

covering

cutting

data packet

demesne

dismember

distribute

domain

dominion

drove

encapsulation

end

🔚

enfold

estate

extent

faggot

Hyphenated as

par‧cel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɑɹsəl/

Etymology

Inherited from 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.