Word.ws English Dictionary

parcelful

parcelful noun: enough to fill a parcel.

Noun

parcelful (plural parcelfuls)

  1. Enough to fill a parcel.
    • As she liked books, he even thought of taking her a whole parcelful as a surprise—some that he had left in one of his trunks in the loft.[c. 1900], Émile Zola, The Masterpieces of Emile Zola, Lutetian Society, page 149
    • The bhaktas send parcelfuls of various eatables from Calcutta as offerings.1967, Swami Nityatmananda, D. P. Gupta, ‘M’—the Apostle and the Evangelist: A Continuation of M’s Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Civil Lines, Rohtak: Sri Ramakrishna—Sri Ma Prakashan, page 3

Forms of parcelful

pluralparcelfuls

Origin of parcelful

From parcel + -ful.

Questions about parcelful

What does parcelful mean?
Parcelful means enough to fill a parcel.
What part of speech is parcelful?
Parcelful is a noun.
What is the plural of parcelful?
The plural of parcelful is parcelfuls.

Words near parcelful in the dictionary

  1. parcelcopter
  2. parcelcopters
  3. parceled
  4. parceled out
  5. parceled up
  6. parcelful
  7. parcelfuls
  8. parceling
  9. parceling out
  10. parceling up
  11. parcelings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parcelful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “parcelful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/parcelful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.