| Word | Parlance |
|---|---|
| Meaning | a way of speaking that is typical of a certain group or culture |
| Example 1 | When I heard the computer programmers talking about coding, I could not understand a word of their parlance. |
| Example 2 | The legal parlance used by attorneys has its roots in the Latin language. |
| Example 3 | Because the counselor talks to teens every day, she is quite familiar with the parlance young people use to communicate. |
| Example 4 | The author used the parlance of a small country town as a guide for perfecting the dialogue of his Southerner characters. |
| Example 5 | When the doctor testified on the stand, he spoke in a medical parlance that few members of the jury understood. |
| Example 6 | My daughter was quick to tell me that adolescents no longer used the once popular phrase in modern parlance. |
| Example 7 | Although Kim listened to the assistant on the helpline, she could not understand the technical parlance well enough to fix her computer. |
| Example 8 | Low blood sugar is referred to as hypoglycemia in medical parlance. |
| Example 9 | In financial parlance, the professor explained the easiest way for us to complete our profit and loss statements. |
| Example 10 | Since you are not a racing fan, you probably will not understand much of the parlance used by the sportscasters during the race. |
