parcel

About 3.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport.

   I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.

2. noun An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
3. noun An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
4. noun A division of land bought and sold as a unit.

   I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.

5. noun A group of birds.
6. noun An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
7. noun A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
8. noun A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

   A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

Similar words

package packet bundle tract share portion parcel of land piece of ground piece of land packaging

Often followed by

of post and service to in is out was

Word family

parceled parceling parcelled parcelling parcels