PARLEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parley mean? 

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

1. a negotiation between enemies

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

• PARLEY (verb)
  The verb PARLEY has 1 sense:

1. discuss, as between enemies

  Familiarity information: PARLEY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARLEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A negotiation between enemies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

dialogue; negotiation; talks (a discussion intended to produce an agreement)

Derivation:

parley (discuss, as between enemies)

• PARLEY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they parley    ... he / she / it parleys   
Past simple: parleyed   
Past participle: parleyed   
-ing form: parleying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discuss, as between enemies

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "parley" is one way to...):

negociate (confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "parley"):

palaver (have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue parley
Sam wants to parley with Sue

Derivation:

parley (a negotiation between enemies)

 Context examples 

His visit he would now defer; but they had a very interesting parley about what could be done and should be done.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

However, he would enter into no parley with them, but only asked them if they would go in peace or not.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“As well hold parley with a pack of ravening wolves,” said the French captain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whichever Mr. Yates did not chuse would perfectly satisfy him, and a short parley of compliment ensued.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

‘I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my own private purse,’ said I, ‘were it not that the strain would be rather more than it could bear.

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

His head was all right again, he said, and so, without further parley, I left him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And now, said he, to settle what remains. Will you be wise? will you be guided? will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand and to go forth from your house without further parley? or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She hardly knew yet what Mr. Knightley would ask; but a very short parley with her own heart produced the most solemn resolution of never quitting her father.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)