parcelful

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noun

Enough to fill a parcel.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounparcelful (plural parcelfuls)

plural parcelfuls

  1. Enough to fill a parcel.

    A parcelful of reasons.

    2017, Chris Nickson, On Copper Street: A Tom Harper Mystery, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN
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    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

Origin

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APA

parcelful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parcelful

MLA

“parcelful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parcelful. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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