parlance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: par=lance

CIDE DICTIONARY

parlance, 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parlance, n. a particular way of speaking, esp. as regards choice of words, idiom, etc.

Etymology

OF f. parler speak, ult. f. L parabola (see PARABLE): in LL = 'speech'

THESAURUS

parlance

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

ROGET THESAURUS

parlance

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.