parcels
Because it is a word with a single syllable, parcels is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofparcels
- A package wrapped for shipment.
Synonyms: package
Example: "I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep."
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
Synonyms: plot
Example: "I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery."
- A group of birds.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
Example: "A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece."
- To wrap something up into the form of a package.
- To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
- To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
- (plural) A parcels train, normally carrying nothing but parcels.
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