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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--parietal This week's theme: words related to teaching, learning, and schools. parietal (puh-RY-i-tl) noun 1. Usually plural, regulations governing visiting privileges of the opposite sex in dormitories of a college campus. 2. A wall of a body part or cavity. adjective 1. Of or relating to campus regulations regarding dormitory visits. 2. Of or relating to the various walls in the body or related bones. [From Latin paries (wall).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "A group of students at Simon's Rock, part of Bard College, is fighting the parietal rules against nonresident students' staying overnight in single-sex freshmen dormitories." The New York Times; Parietal Rules Under Attack at Special School; Dec 17, 1989. X-Bonus Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. -Polybius, historian (c. 205-123 BCE)

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