parcel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An object wrapped up to be sent or carried, especially by post.

   A brown paper parcel was waiting on my doorstep.

2. 2
   noun

   A piece of land bought or sold as a single unit.

   They bought a small parcel of land near the river.

3. 3
   verb

   To divide something into parts and share it out.

   The developers parceled the land into building plots.

From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.

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