Meanings
parker1
Parker2
plural Parkers
- countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation for a gamekeeper.
1 more example
When C.J. Parker got his new passport in the mail, he was initially in disbelief. Parker thought that the contents of the UPS envelope that he had opened must have been a mistake: The 27-year-old’s corrected birth certificate and a court order certifying his name and gender change had seemingly been destroyed.
2025 March 3, Nico Lang, ““Simply Trying to Exist”: How Trans Americans Are Navigating the Confusion and Chaos of Trump’s Passport Policy”, in Them - countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
- countableuncountableA female given name.
- A number of places in the United States:
- countableuncountableA town, the county seat of La Paz County, Arizona.
- countableuncountableA home rule municipality in Douglas County, Colorado.
- countableuncountableA city in Bay County, Florida.
- countableuncountableA small city in Fremont County, Idaho.
- countableuncountableA small city in Linn County, Kansas.
- countableuncountableA township in Marshall County, Minnesota.
- countableuncountableA township in Morrison County, Minnesota.
- countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
- countableuncountableA small city in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
- countableuncountableA township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- countableuncountableA census-designated place in Greenville County, South Carolina.
- countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Turner County, South Dakota.
- countableuncountableA city in Collin County, Texas.
- countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Johnson County, Texas.
- countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington.
plural Parkers
- A Parker-brand pen.
At most street corners one would be offered exotic items of merchandise unavailable anywhere else in Spain - mouldy chocolate, laddered stockings, damp American cigarettes, leaky Parkers, and fake Swiss watches.
1969, Laurie Lee, As I walked out one midsummer morning
Origin
- Frankish*parrukbor.?
- Frankish*parrikbor.?
- Latin*parra
- Early Medieval Latinpar(ri)cus
- Old Frenchparc
- Middle Englishpark
- Englishpark
- Englishparker
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with parker
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
parker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parker
“parker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parker. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parker,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parker.
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