parcels
Meaning of parcels
plural noun
- an object or collection of objects wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post.
the lorry was carrying a large number of Royal Mail parcels
a brown paper parcel
a parcel bomb
- a quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction.
a parcel of shares
- make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it.
he parcelled up the goods and sent them back
- wrap (rope) with strips of tarred canvas, before binding it with yarn as part of a traditional technique to reduce chafing.
late Middle English (chiefly in the sense ‘small portion’): from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula ‘small part’.
Information about parcels
- The singular form of parcels is: parcel.
- Languages in which parcels is used:
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Hyphenation of parcels
parcels
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- parcels is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
parcels synonyms
Meaning a packet:
Meaning a paper or cardboard container, typically one in which goods are sold:
Meaning a small cardboard or paper container and the items contained within it:
Meaning a small, light box or container in which drinks or foodstuffs are packaged:
Meaning a collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together:
Meaning a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid:
Meaning an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring:
Meaning a large wrapped or bound bundle of paper, hay, or cotton:
Meaning a bundle or collection:
Meaning a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together:
Meaning a flat, thin strip or loop of material, used as a fastener, for reinforcement, or as decoration:
Meaning an organized group of criminals:
Meaning a large number of people gathered together in a disorganized or unruly way:
Meaning a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence:
Meaning a commercial business:
Meaning the action or process of collecting someone or something:
Meaning a large group of people:
Meaning a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment:
Meaning soldiers or armed forces:
Meaning a group of people who work on and operate a ship, aircraft, etc:
Meaning a number of things, typically of the same kind, growing or fastened together:
Meaning cover or enclose in paper or soft material:
Anagrams of parcels
carpels, clasper, craples, placers, reclasp, scalper
Words that rhyme with parcels
Cels, cels, limacels, barbicels, lenticels, pedicels, radicels, cancels, chancels, lioncels, pencels, pennoncels, penoncels, precancels, rancels, spancels, carcels, ensorcels, marcels, tarcels, tercels, tiercels, involucels, excels
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