"parlour" meaning in English

See parlour in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɑːlə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɑɹlɚ/ [General-American], /ˈpaːlɔː/ [Nigeria] Audio: En-us-parlour.ogg [US] Forms: parlours [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} parlour (plural parlours)
  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor. Categories (topical): Rooms

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for parlour meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parlours",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "parlour (plural parlours)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Commonwealth English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rooms",
          "orig": "en:Rooms",
          "parents": [
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, Mary Howitt, The Spider and the Fly, published 1853",
          "text": "Will you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly; / 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor."
      ],
      "id": "en-parlour-en-noun-tRv9UM5a",
      "links": [
        [
          "parlor",
          "parlor#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːlə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑɹlɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpaːlɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "Nigeria"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-parlour.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/En-us-parlour.ogg/En-us-parlour.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/En-us-parlour.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "parlour"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old French",
    "Middle English terms suffixed with -our",
    "Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "enm:Religion",
    "enm:Rooms",
    "enm:Talking"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parlours",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "parlour (plural parlours)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Commonwealth English",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)",
        "Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
        "en:Rooms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, Mary Howitt, The Spider and the Fly, published 1853",
          "text": "Will you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly; / 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "parlor",
          "parlor#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːlə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑɹlɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpaːlɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "Nigeria"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-parlour.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/En-us-parlour.ogg/En-us-parlour.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/En-us-parlour.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "parlour"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.