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The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
Jody Williams

Meaning of "parlance" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARLANCE

From Old French, from parler to talk, via Medieval Latin from Late Latin parabola speech, parable; compare parley.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARLANCE

parlance  [ˈpɑːləns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARLANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parlance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARLANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of parlance in the English dictionary

The definition of parlance in the dictionary is a particular manner of speaking, esp when specialized; idiom. Other definition of parlance is any discussion, such as a debate.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARLANCE


ambivalence
æmˈbɪvələns
ambulance
ˈæmbjʊləns
balance
ˈbæləns
condolence
kənˈdəʊləns
equivalence
ɪˈkwɪvələns
excellence
ˈɛksələns
imbalance
ɪmˈbæləns
opulence
ˈɒpjʊləns
prevalence
ˈprevələns
resemblance
rɪˈzɛmbləns
semblance
ˈsɛmbləns
silence
ˈsaɪləns
surveillance
sɜːˈveɪləns
turbulence
ˈtɜːbjʊləns
ultraviolence
ˌʌltrəˈvaɪələns
valance
ˈvæləns
valence
ˈveɪləns
vigilance
ˈvɪdʒɪləns
violence
ˈvaɪələns
virulence
ˈvɪrʊləns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARLANCE

parkwards
parkway
parky
parlando
parlay
parle
parlement
parley
parleyer
parleyvoo
parliament
parliament building
parliament house
parliamentarian
parliamentarianism
parliamentarily
parliamentarism
parliamentary
parliamentary agent
parliamentary candidate

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARLANCE

account balance
advance
air ambulance
at a glance
Ballance
bank balance
counterbalance
elance
freelance
glance
in the balance
lance
on balance
opening balance
rebalance
strike a balance
the Balance
trial balance
unbalance
video surveillance
work/life balance

Synonyms and antonyms of parlance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PARLANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «parlance» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of parlance

Translation of «parlance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARLANCE

Find out the translation of parlance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of parlance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parlance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

说法
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

el lenguaje
570 millions of speakers

English

parlance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भाषा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لغة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

просторечии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

linguagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কথন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

langage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kata laluan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sprachgebrauch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

専門用語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

용어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Parlance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trò chuyện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கனடியர்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बोलणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

konuşma tarzı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

linguaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żargonie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

просторіччі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

limbajul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδίωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omgangstaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

språkbruk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

språkbruk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parlance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARLANCE»

The term «parlance» is regularly used and occupies the 71.075 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARLANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «parlance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «parlance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parlance

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3 QUOTES WITH «PARLANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word parlance.
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Bernard Beckett
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.
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Scott Westerfeld
When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.
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Jody Williams
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARLANCE»

Discover the use of parlance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parlance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Parlance
The poems in Parlance thrash against the matrix of their own referential nature using a series of linguistic echoes that reference writers like the 'maternal' Virginia Woolf or the 'paternal' Leonard Cohen.
Suzanne Zelazo, 2003
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Animal Spirits: Fables in the Parlance of Our Times
These stories were co-illustrated in a similar way by the artist and Margaret Stevenson, his mother--the moral guide; the results were then made into a publication by Christoph Keller.
Jan Verwoert, Christoph Keller, 2013
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The Economic Function of Futures Markets
raw materials just as it would arrange access to money for the same objective. 4.4. Market parlance and inventory control theory Commercial terminology itself lends credence to the idea that futures markets are concerned not with risk aversion ...
Jeffrey Williams, 1989
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The Language of Theatre
It dates at least from eC19: 'If he [the stage carpenter] is what, in theatre parlance, is termed a day-man, he reaches the theatre at quarter to ten if the rehearsal be at ten...' (1850s, T.W. Robertson, quoted in Nagler, 496). Etymology obvious.
Martin Harrison, 1998
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Occult Truths in Common Parlance
THIS 12 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophist Magazine January 1925-March 1925, by Theosophical Publishing . To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766151786.
Theosophical Publishing, 2010
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Hebrews between Cultures: Group Portraits and National ...
DISSONANT. DISCOURSE,. NATIONAL. DISCORD. Echoing. Outgroup. Parlance. at. In-Fighting. Bicultural Stigmatizing This insight into the leader's ordeal of national consciousness settles one question about "Hebrews" only to sharpen ...
Meir Sternberg, 1999
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Professions in Civil Society and the State: Invariant ...
Much like gentle discourse during the ancien régime, popular parlance today in the United States (and elsewhere) is indifferent to any and all structural factors constitutive of professionalism in particular. It instead trucks in phenomenal ...
David Sciulli, 2009
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Crime, Drugs and Social Theory: A Phenomenological Approach
As practitioners of working class parlance my respondents were ill- equipped to ' grasp' the bourgeois parlance necessary to succeed within the education system. However, their misrecognition of the 'natural legitimacy' (as opposed to ...
Chris Allen, 2007
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The Mac Hacker's Handbook
CHAPTER. 2. Mac. OS. X. Parlance. Computers running Mac OS X use a variety of protocols to communicate with other machines. Many of these are common protocols used by all computers— for example HTTP, FTP, or SMTP. Through the  ...
Charlie Miller, Dino Dai Zovi, 2011
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The Languages of Civil Society
Chapter. 8. Global. Civil. Society: From. Dissident. Discourse. To. World. Bank. Parlance. Jody Jensen and Ferenc Miszlivetz In a visionary article first published in 1986, Marc Nerfin provided a powerful and dynamic model to help in ...
Peter Wagner, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARLANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parlance is used in the context of the following news items.
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India showcases the maddening complexity of religious persecution
A “Tribal,” in Indian parlance, means one of the country's native original inhabitants. They're about 9 percent of the population, some 105 ... «Crux: Covering all things Catholic, Jul 15»
2
Public Eye: Nearly 1 in 10 gallons of water disappears in Sacramento
The American Water Works Association recommends utilities set a maximum 10 percent benchmark for what's known in utility parlance as ... «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
3
Edwin Baker works at mortgage firm to prep for post-NFL life
United Shore offers free valet parking service to its 1,300 employees, or "team members" in the company's parlance. That means no one has to ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
4
The 'Palestinian Village' of Susya is Neither Palestinian Nor a Village
Susya is neither “Palestinian” nor a “village.” It can more accurately be described – to use the parlance of foreign journalists when reporting on ... «Algemeiner, Jul 15»
5
Reclassification May Be Responsible For The Increase In Autism
... the “challenged” classification which in today's parlance is “intellectually disabled” but not considered autistic. When the researchers returned ... «Times Gazette, Jul 15»
6
Tesla, Faraday can be electrifying for Nevada's future
Tesla and Faraday, in our beloved gaming parlance, can be a real pair to draw to! Brian Greenspun is publisher, editor and owner of the Sun. «Las Vegas Sun, Jul 15»
7
'Backseaters' gather to raise a toast for their brothers-in-arms
As modern-day bar parlance would have it, a wingman is the loyal friend who hits the town with you, ready to fend off brawls, awkward cocktail ... «INFORUM, Jul 15»
8
Philippines' most wanted man still believes in the revolutionary …
"It is simply journalistic parlance in the Western media to call communist a state or society governed by a communist party," he said. Should his ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
9
Miller: Colorado in the lens
We're a purple state, a "battleground" state in electoral parlance; a red state in nomenclature and partly by political persuasion; a blue state by ... «The Denver Post, Jul 15»
10
Five things to do this week, July 26
... natural and other days I don't know what people are talking about so I have to ask questions and figure out the parlance and the phrases.". «Western Morning News, Jul 15»

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