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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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