parcel

Meanings

Noun

• A package wrapped for shipment.
• An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
• A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
• A group of birds.
• An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
• A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
• A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

Verb

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

Adverb

• Part or half; in part; partially.

Origin

• From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle ("a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle"), from Vulgar Latin, diminutive of Latin particula ("particle"), diminutive of pars. particle.