Collins English-English Dictionary

parcel ['pɑːs^əl]

1. 1. n something wrapped up; package

2. 2. n a group of people or things having some common characteristic

3. 3. n a quantity of some commodity offered for sale; lot

4. 4. n a distinct portion of land

5. 5. n an essential part of something (esp in the phrase part and parcel)

6. 6. vt. [tr] [often foll by up] to make a parcel of; wrap up

7. 7. vt. [often foll by out] to divide (up) into portions

8. 8. vt. [nautical] to bind strips of canvas around (a rope)

9. 9. adv an archaic word for partly

10. 10. adv [Etymology] C14: from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula particle