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Plural of parcel

regular plural

The plural of parcel is parcels.

Forms of parcel

Singularparcel [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ]
Pluralparcels
Countablecountable

Parcels in a sentence

  • The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.From the entry bed
  • He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.From the entry wrapper
  • Encountering difficulties with the parcels’ unhelpful recipient, the deliveryman unceremoniously dumped the packages in the street outside the door.From the entry unceremoniously
  • The mixtures are wrapped and tied in banana leaf parcels and steamed.2015, Linda Bladholm, Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified, page 343. From the entry duckanoo
  • I unpacked the parcels at once with an eager birthdayish feeling.2015, Nancy Buckingham, Return to Vienna. From the entry birthdayish

Meaning of parcel

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

Full definition of parcel

Questions about the plural of parcel

What is the plural of parcel?
The plural of parcel is parcels.
Is parcel countable?
Parcel is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parcel (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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