parker

park·er
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US/ˈpɑɹkɚ/UK/ˈpɑːkə/

noun

A parkkeeper.

CommonScrabble 12

Meanings

parker1

nounparker (plural parkers)

plural parkers

  1. Someone who parks a motor vehicle.

Parker2

proper nounParker (countable and uncountable, plural Parkers)

plural Parkers

  1. 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
  2. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. countableuncountableA female given name.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
    1. countableuncountableA town, the county seat of La Paz County, Arizona.
    2. countableuncountableA home rule municipality in Douglas County, Colorado.
    3. countableuncountableA city in Bay County, Florida.
    4. countableuncountableA small city in Fremont County, Idaho.
    5. countableuncountableA small city in Linn County, Kansas.
    6. countableuncountableA township in Marshall County, Minnesota.
    7. countableuncountableA township in Morrison County, Minnesota.
    8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
    9. countableuncountableA small city in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
    10. countableuncountableA township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
    11. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Turner County, South Dakota.
    12. countableuncountableA city in Collin County, Texas.
    13. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Johnson County, Texas.
nounParker (plural Parkers)

plural Parkers

  1. 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

  1. Frankish*parrukbor.?
  2. Frankish*parrikbor.?
  3. Latin*parra
  4. Early Medieval Latinpar(ri)cus
  5. Old Frenchparc
  6. Middle Englishpark
  7. Englishpark
  8. Englishparker

From park + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Sounds the same

parka (non-rhotic)parkerparker

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Cite this entry
APA

parker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parker

MLA

“parker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parker. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parker,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parker.

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