parlance
noun/ˈpɑːləns/
/ˈpɑːrləns/
[uncountable] (formal)- a particular way of using words or expressing yourself, for example one used by a particular group
- in common/legal/modern parlance
- A Munro, in climbing parlance, is a Scottish mountain exceeding 3 000 feet.
- The word ‘modem’ entered common parlance in the 1990s.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting speech or debate): from Old French, from parler ‘speak’, from Latin parabola ‘comparison’ (in late Latin ‘speech’).
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