PARLANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parlance mean? 

• PARLANCE (noun)
  The noun PARLANCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PARLANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARLANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

idiom; parlance

Hypernyms ("parlance" is a kind of...):

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

 Context examples 

It was a case, in the parlance of thieves and police, of "rail-roading."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Computer technique for predicting conformation of protein or other macromolecule by rotating all bonds so as to minimize free energy; in looser parlance, term may refer to intramolecular motion.

(Molecular Dynamics, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

When he told us of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride’s manner, of so transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very significant allusion to claim-jumping—which in miners’ parlance means taking possession of that which another person has a prior claim to—the whole situation became absolutely clear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)