Word Meanings - PARLEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley , to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding

Additional info about word: PARLEY

Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley , to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy. (more info) to speak, LL. parabolare, fr. L. parabola a comparison, parable, in

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PARLEY)

• Audience
• Hearers
• assembly
• auditory
• conference
• parley
• reception
• interview

Related words: (words related to PARLEY)

• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• AUDITORY
  Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal , the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.
• INTERVIEWING
  The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews. An article on interviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.
• INTERVIEWER
  One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.
• PARLEY
  Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley , to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding
• INTERVIEW
  to have a glimpse of, s'entrevoir to visit each other. See Inter-, 1. A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President. 2.
• RECEPTION
  1. The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence. 2. The state of being received. 3. The act or manner of receiving, esp.
• ASSEMBLYMAN
  A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
• PLAUDITORY
  Applauding; commending.
• PREAUDIENCE
  Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers. Blackstone.
• INTRORECEPTION
  The act of admitting into or within. Hammond.
• WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
  See ASSEMBLY
• UNAUDIENCED
  Not given an audience; not received or heard.
• PRECEPTION
  A precept. Bp. Hall.
• CLAIRAUDIENCE
  Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.