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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language;
[syn: parlance, idiom]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

parlance n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language [syn: parlance, idiom]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

Parlance A concurrent language. ["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin 1979]. (1994-12-12)