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单词 parson
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parson

noun

par·​son ˈpär-sᵊn How to pronounce parson (audio)
1
: rector
2
: clergyman
especially : a Protestant pastor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Saturday, indicating in a subsequent statement that an unidentified parson fired between two and four shots from a northbound vehicle, possibly a BMW. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022 At sixty, Øino has a boyish mop and the mild countenance of a country parson. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 That man is Miles Lufton, the ambitious son of a parson in early 19th-century England. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022 The most helpless of all beings is a poor parson, of an Evening, in London in Wet Weather—without a carriage. Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 14 May 2020 In this 1952 British film, a country parson (Ralph Richardson) with a reputation of caring more for his parishioners than his own family hosts his son (Denholm Elliott) and daughter (Margaret Leighton) for Christmas. Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2019 But there’s a hitch: Penelope has been abducted by a romantic rival and needs rescuing, Samuel eventually tells the parson. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018 Books had an aura of hierarchy and patriarchy: the parson in his pulpit, the politician at the dispatch box, the professor on the podium, paterfamilias in his armchair. John Sutherland, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018 In 1903, it was sold to the Congregational Church of New Fairfield and served as the parson’s residence for more than half a century. Susan Hodara, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English persone, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin persona, literally, person, from Latin

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

parson

noun

par·​son ˈpär-sᵊn How to pronounce parson (audio)
: minister entry 1 sense 1

parson

noun

as in vicar

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • vicar
  • clergyman
  • pastor
  • rector
  • curé
  • churchman
  • abbé
  • padre
  • shepherd
  • bishop
  • curate
  • deaconess
  • dean
  • abbot
  • presbyter
  • prelate
  • father
  • chaplain
  • archbishop
  • pope
  • confessor
  • monsignor
  • priestess
  • friar
  • archpriest
  • preacher
  • missionary
  • reverend
  • diocesan
  • monk
  • clergywoman
  • deacon
  • missioner
  • priest
  • religious
  • dominie
  • revivalist
  • mendicant
  • evangelist
  • Holy Joe
  • monastic
  • ecclesiastic
  • clerical
  • cleric
  • oblate
  • divine
  • minister
  • sky pilot
  • clerk
  • clergyperson
  • missionizer
  • high priestess
  • high priest

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • layman
  • layperson
  • lector
  • lay reader
  • secular
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