'Parlance' definitions:
Definition of 'parlance'
From: WordNet
noun
A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language [syn: parlance, idiom]
Definition of 'Parlance'
From: GCIDE
- Parlance \Par"lance\ (p[aum]r"lans), n. [OF., fr. F. parler to speak. See Parley.] Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. [1913 Webster]
- A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Parlando
Synonyms of 'parlance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- choice of words,
- composition,
- dialect,
- diction,
- expression,
- formulation,
- grammar,
- idiom,
- jargon,
- language,
- langue,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- locution,
- parole,
- personal usage,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- rhetoric,
- speech,
- talk,
- tongue,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- verbiage,
- wordage,
- wording