parcel
noun /ˈpɑːsl/
/ˈpɑːrsl/
Idioms - (especially British English) (North American English usually package)something that is wrapped in paper or put into a thick envelope so that it can be sent by mail, carried easily or given as a present
- There's a parcel and some letters for you.
- She was carrying a parcel of books under her arm.
- The prisoners were allowed food parcels.
Extra Examples- He came in laden with parcels for the children.
- I sealed up the box with brown parcel tape.
- She went to collect her parcel from the depot.
- The courier tried to deliver a parcel yesterday but I'd already left.
- The waiter had our left-over food made up into a parcel to take home.
- This morning a parcel arrived containing a signed copy of his new book.
- We left little parcels outside each person's door.
- a parcel-delivery business
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- little
- small
- …
- post
- send
- deliver
- …
- arrive
- contain something
- delivery
- tape
- bomb
- …
- in a/the parcel
- parcel from
- parcel to
- …
- a piece of land
- 50 five-acre parcels have already been sold.
- (especially British English) a small amount of food that is wrapped in something, usually pastry, before it is cooked
- filo pastry parcels
- cheese and spinach parcels
- Fold up the pastry to form a parcel.
- Place the fish on top, tucking any tail ends under to make neat parcels.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- neat
- baked
- crispy
- …
- be stuffed with something
Word Originlate Middle English (chiefly in the sense ‘small portion’): from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula ‘small part’.
Idioms
part and parcel of something
- an essential part of something
- Keeping the accounts is part and parcel of my job.
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