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Synonyms for parchment
ˈpɑrtʃ məntparch·ment

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Wiktionary2.5 / 2 votes

  1. parchmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    bookfell, vegetal parchment

  2. parchmentnoun

    A material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.

    Synonyms:
    bookfell, vegetal parchment

  3. parchmentnoun

    A document made on such material.

    Synonyms:
    bookfell, vegetal parchment

  4. parchmentnoun

    A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).

    Synonyms:
    bookfell, vegetal parchment

  5. parchmentnoun

    Stiff paper imitating that material.

    Synonyms:
    vegetal parchment, bookfell

  6. parchmentnoun

    The creamy to tanned color of parchment

    Synonyms:
    bookfell, vegetal parchment

Princeton's WordNet3.3 / 4 votes

  1. parchmentnoun

    a superior paper resembling sheepskin

    Synonyms:
    lambskin, sheepskin

  2. parchment, sheepskin, lambskinnoun

    skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on

    Synonyms:
    lambskin, fleece, sheepskin, diploma

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  1. parchmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    vellum, pell, palimpsest

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "parchment":

    scroll

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#6842scroll
#7269diploma
#8969fleece
#29510parchment
#30638sheepskin
#63311lambskin

How to use parchment in a sentence?

  1. Danielle Allen:

    Up until now, only one large-format ceremonial parchment manuscript was known to exist, that one is in the National Archives and was produced in 1776. This one was produced a decade later, with the signed parchment as its source.

  2. Danielle Allen:

    This parchment manuscript illuminates in one stroke how the Federalists and anti-Federalists debated the question of whether the new republic was founded on the authority of a single, united sovereign people or on the authority of 13 separate state governments.

  3. Ferréol of Uzès:

    [the monk] who does not turn up the earth with the plow ought to write the parchment with his fingers

  4. Oded Rechavi:

    Its amazing that enough DNA can be extracted from the 2000-year-old scrolls, they are not only old and contaminated, they have also been processed (to make parchment) which is very damaging to the DNA.

  5. Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" -- page 180:

    Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.


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