noun. An Anglican cleric with full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.

noun. A member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister.

noun. A person.

noun. The person in holy orders who has the charge or cure of souls in a parish; the incumbent of a parochial benefice.

noun. A clergyman in general; a man licensed to preach: often used colloquially, or with a touch of contempt: as, a fox-hunting parson.

noun. A tiny finch of Brazil, Spermophila minuta.

noun. The parson-bird or poe-bird.

noun. Synonyms Clergyman, Priest, etc. See minister, n.

noun. A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.

noun. Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.

noun. a New Zealand bird (Prosthemadera Novæseelandiæ) remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft of long, curly, white feathers on each side of the throat. It is often kept as a cage bird.

noun. An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.

noun. A Protestant minister.

noun. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

"Now my friend the parson is the outgrowth of the New England theocracy, about the simplest, purest, and least objectionable state of society that the world ever saw."

gray-coat parson  isle of wight parson  journeyman parson  maryland parson  parson and clerk  

parsonage  parsondom  

clergyman  man of the cloth  reverend  

ministrant  

Carson  Larson  arson  

bishop  chaplain  clergyman  clerk  curate  

DD  Doctor of Divinity  Holy Joe  abbe  chaplain