Parlance

Definition: Parlance

Parlance

Noun

1. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.

Date "parlance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Etymology: Parlance \Par"lance\, noun. [OF., from French parler to speak. See Parley.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Parlance A concurrent language. ["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin 1979]. (1994-12-12). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Literature	Parlance In common parlance. In the usual or vulgar phraseology. An English-French word; the French have parler, parlant, parlage, etc.- to speak, speaking, talk- but not parlance. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Parlance

Synonym: idiom (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Plainness	Adverb: in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance; point-blank.
Speech	Noun: speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Parlance

English words defined with "parlance": Glass painting. (references)

Specialty definitions using "parlance": Before the Lights, Blind Department ♦ Catch-word, Command Night ♦ Fall of the Drop ♦ Gags ♦ Hackney Horses ♦ Juveniles ♦ Lawn-market, Light Comedian, Low Comedian ♦ Old Women, Orphanages ♦ Sawdust Parlance, Set Scene, Singing Chambermaids, Sky-rakers, sock puppet, Super, Supers. (references)

Etymologies containing "parlance": Imparlance. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Well, to use boxing parlance if I may. Son, you just lost. (Sliding Doors; writing credit: Peter Howitt.)

Can't complain, had his chance and in modern parlance, blew it. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense, and 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance (reference) The Jazz Titans, Including 'the Parlance of Hip' (reference) (more book examples)

Music	The parlance of our time (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		For example, "cheap" in American parlance is often used to mean "inexpensive. (references)
		These private equity funds are searching for companies with high growth potential in order to inject capital; reengineer management, production and commercialization processes; and then, in industry parlance, "exit. (references)
Human Rights	Sri Lanka	The border into the territory controlled by the LTTE (an "uncleared area" in Government parlance) was not closed during the year. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Parlance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parlance" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	89	34,931

Expressions using "parlance": in common parlance ♦ in legal parlance ♦ in modern parlance ♦ in plain common parlance. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "parlance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të folur (language, phraseology, speech, tongue), mënyrë të foluri (locution, phrasing). (various references)

Arabic		‏لغة و طريقة التعبير, ‏لغة (idiom, language, speech, talk, tongue), ‏أسلوب التعبير. (various references)

Bulgarian		говор (dialect, idiom, speech), език (idiom, language, pawl, red rag, speech, striker, terms, tongue). (various references)

Czech		zpùsob řeèi, hantýrka (argot, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular), žargon (cant, jargon, lingo, vernacular). (various references)

Farsi		مناظره (Agument, Discussion, Disputation), مکالمه (Colloquium, Conversation, Palaver), گفتگو (Colloquy, Conference, Conversation, Converse, Dialogue, Discussion, Talk), طرزسخن گفتن . (various references)

French		parler, langage. (various references)

German		Ausdrucksweise (idiom, mode of expression, phraseology, phrasing, style, terms). (various references)

Greek		ομιλία (address, chat, colloquy, communion, converse, discourse, homily, parole, speaking, speech, talk, talking, voice), διάλεκτοσ (dialect, handpicked, lingo). (various references)

Hebrew		אפן �"�"בור. (various references)

Hungarian		szólásmód (idiomatic phrase, idiomatic turn, locution), beszéd (abuse, articulation, blurb, diatribe, encompassment, exhortation, fooling about, harangue, piffle, slur, speech, spoken word, talk, talking, tirade). (various references)

Italian		parlata (speech), linguaggio (accent, imagery, language, lingo, ribaldry, speech). (various references)

Manx		glare (language, speech, utterance). (various references)

Pig Latin		arlancepay

Portuguese		vivo (above ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, Cork, Corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervently, frit, gauffer, gay, graphic card, graphically, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, lummox, lute, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimbleness, Nirvana, perm, pertain, piddle, piping, poignantly, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), terminologia (glossary, terminology), maneira de falar, linguagem (idiom, language, speech, tongue). (various references)

Romanian		mod de a vorbi, limbaj (accent, fine language, language, speech, tongue). (various references)

Russian		способ выражения (way of talking), манера говорить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		način govora. (various references)

Spanish		lenguaje (dialect, diction, elocution, idiom, language, league, lexicon, speech), habla (consultation, creeper, demagogy, dialog, dialogue, is spoken, joke, language, parole, speak, speech, term). (various references)

Swedish		talspråk (colloquial language, spoken language). (various references)

Turkish		konuşma tarzı (address), dil (clapper, language, lingo, speech, tongue). (various references)

Turkmen		gep (conversation, talk). (various references)

Ukranian		манера розмовляти (delivery). (various references)

Vietnamese		cách nói (elocution). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "parlance": parlances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Parlance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pagliuca, Paklenica, palanca, palance, parlian, Pearleane, Pearlene, perlance, perlice, Prafance, puriance, purlance. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "parlance" (pronounced pÄ"rluns)
4	-l u n s	ambivalence, ambulance, balance, benevolence, condolence, counterbalance, equivalence, excellence, imbalance, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, turbulence, unbalance, Valence, vigilance, violence, virulence.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-p-r"
	-1 letter: capelan, carpale, preanal.
	-2 letters: anlace, apneal, arcane, canape, carnal, carpal, carpel, earlap, lancer, palace, parcel, placer, planar, planer, prance, replan.
	-3 letters: alane, anear, apace, apnea, areal, areca, arena, arpen, canal, caner, caper, carle, clean, clear, craal, crane, crape, lacer, lance, learn, nacre, pacer, paean, palea, paler, panel, parae, parle, pearl, pecan, penal, place, plane, plena, rance, recap, renal.
	-4 letters: acne, acre, alae, alan, alar, alec, anal, aper, area, cane, cape, care, carl, carn, carp, clan, clap, crap, earl, earn, elan, lace, lane, lean, leap, lear, nape, narc, neap, near, paca, pace, pale, pane, para, pare, peal, pean, pear, plan, plea, race, rale, rape, real, reap.
	-5 letters: aal, ace, ala, ale, alp, ana, ane, ape, arc, are, can, cap, car, cel, cep, ear, era, ern, lac, lap, lar, lea, nae, nap, pac, pal, pan, par, pea, pec, pen, per, ran, rap, rec, rep.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-p-r"
	+1 letter: parlances.
	+2 letters: landscaper.
	+3 letters: landscapers, panegyrical, parenchymal, pericranial, relandscape.
	+4 letters: alphanumeric, antiparticle, appendicular, incomparable, preclearance, relandscaped, relandscapes, uncapturable.
	+5 letters: alphanumerics, antiparticles, compartmental, convertaplane, coplanarities, cryptanalyses, encephalogram, inappreciable, inappreciably, noncomparable, panegyrically, parenthetical, paternalistic, plantocracies, polycarbonate, practicalness, preclearances, prevocational, prosencephala, reapplication, relandscaping, rhinencephala, unspectacular, upperclassman.
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