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English
Etymology
From Middle English *parlaunce, from Anglo-Norman parlance, parlaunce, from parler (“to talk”) + -ance.
Pronunciation
Noun
parlance (countable and uncountable, plural parlances)
- A certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.
1836, James Fenimore Cooper, "Eclipse":To my childish fancy, it had seemed an imaginary flag-staff, or, in rustic parlance, the "liberty pole" of some former generation […]
1909, William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland, Chapter 22:The tourist's impression of the country to-day is that of a transported Holland, in which the official language is Dutch and the parlance of the people is "taki-taki."
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 200:At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.
- Of a word, the quality of being lexicalized; especially as jargon or slang.
2020, Stanley Oluka, Performance Management System and Employee Performance in Amuria Health Centre IV, Eastern Uganda:Its use at a variety of levels, including the individual and organisational level, make it a varied term that has parlance in organisational development, performance management and talent management.
- (archaic, rare) Speech, discussion or debate.
Synonyms
Translations
A certain way of speaking (or using words)
- Bulgarian: говор (bg) m (govor)
- Chinese: 措辞 (zh) (cuòcí)
- Estonian: kõneviis
- Finnish: puhetapa (fi), -kieli (fi), -slangi (fi)
- German: Ausdrucksweise (de) f, Jargon (de) m, Redeweise (de) f, Redestil m, Sprechweise (de) f, Diktion (de) f
- Icelandic: talsmáti m, málvenja (is) f, málfar (is) n, mál (is) n
- Italian: parlata (it)
- Persian: بیان (fa) (bayân)
- Russian: манера говорить f (manera govoritʹ), говоря языком (чего-л.) (govorja jazykom (čevo-l.)), на языке (чего-л.) (na jazyke (čevo-l.))
- Slovene: žargon m
- Spanish: jerga (es) f, sociolecto m
- Turkish: deyim (tr), deyiş (tr), tâbir (tr)
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Anagrams
Old French
Etymology
parler + -ance, or from Latin parabolantia.
Noun
parlance oblique singular, f (oblique plural parlances, nominative singular parlance, nominative plural parlances)
- discussion; debate
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