parson

See also: Parson and pärsōn

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Etymology

From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman, Old French persone (“parson, person”), from Medieval Latin persona (“parson, person”), from Latin persona (“person”). Doublet of person and persona.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːs(ə)n/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹsən/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)sən
• Hyphenation: par‧son

Noun

parson (plural parsons)

1. An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law.

   Synonyms: rector; autem bawler (slang, archaic, rare), autem jet (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant)

   Hypernym: cleric

   Coordinate term: vicar

2. A Protestant minister.

   Hypernyms: minister; cleric

3. (now chiefly historical) A Roman Catholic priest of an independent parish church.

   Hypernyms: priest; cleric

   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 35–37:

     a lewde curate,
     A parson benyfyced
     But nothynge well advysed.

Derived terms

• Fleet parson
• hedge parson
• hunting parson
• parsonage
• parsonarchy
• parson bird
• parsondom
• Parson Drove
• parsoned
• parsoness
• parsonhood
• parsonic
• parsonical
• parson imparsonee
• parson-in-the-pulpit
• parsonish
• parsonlike
• parsonly
• Parson Russell
• Parsons Green
• Parson's Heath
• parsonship
• parson's nose
• Parson Trulliber
• squarson

Translations

cleric having full control of a parish

Bulgarian: енорийски свещеник (enorijski sveštenik) Finnish: kirkkoherra (fi) French: curé (fr) m, curé paroissial m Hungarian: plébános (hu) Italian: parroco (it) m Russian: священник (ru) m (svjaščennik) Spanish: párroco (es) m, cura párroco m

protestant minister

Arabic: قِسِّيس (ar) m (qissīs) Czech: farář (cs) m, pastor (cs) m Finnish: pappi (fi) French: pasteur (fr) m Hungarian: lelkész (hu) Italian: pastore (it) m Plautdietsch: Prädja m Spanish: pastor (es) m

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Welsh: (please verify) person (cy) m

Anagrams

• aspron, Rapson, aprons, Porsan

Old French

Noun

parson oblique singular, m (oblique plural parsons, nominative singular parsons, nominative plural parson)

1. alternative form of persone (in the sense "parson")