1. A box or collection of items wrapped for shipment
   "She mailed the parcel to her sister overseas";
   - package
    
2. A collection of things wrapped or boxed together
   "She received a parcel of books in the mail";
   - package, bundle, packet
    
3. The allotment of some amount by dividing something
   "death gets more than its parcel of attention from theologians";
   - portion, share
    
4. An extended area of land
   "They inherited a large parcel of land from their grandparents";
   - tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land

1. Make into a wrapped container
   "The shopkeeper parceled the items for shipping"
    
2. Divide into parts
   "The developers parceled the land"
    
3. Cover with strips of canvas
   "parcel rope"

Derived forms: parcelling, parcels, parcelled, parceled

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assemblage, assignation, carve up, collection, container, cover, dissever [rare], divide, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, parceling [US], parcelling, separate, split, split up, wrap, wrap up

Encyclopedia: Parcel