| 单词 | passel |
| 释义 | passel (once / 16577 pages) n You can use the noun passel when you're talking about a group or a bunch of something. Your friends might decide to hire a bus to drive a whole passel of kids to an amusement park. The informal passel is a great way to talk about a large but vague number of things or people, like a passel of cousins at Thanksgiving or a passel of puppies at the local animal shelter. Passel is a nineteenth century invention, a US dialect version of parcel, "quantity, part, or portion." WORD FAMILYpassel: passels USAGE EXAMPLES“For decades, the District was losing population,” Passel said. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) The share of agriculture workers who entered the country illegally “tends to be very high everywhere,” Passel said. Washington Times(Nov 19, 2016) They see America as a reclamation project led by a passel of supersmart Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
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