Parker

See also: parker and pārķer

English

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Parker (countable and uncountable, plural Parkers)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a gamekeeper.
    • 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[1]:
      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.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A female given name.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A town, the county seat of La Paz County, Arizona.
    2. A home rule municipality in Douglas County, Colorado.
    3. A city in Bay County, Florida.
    4. A small city in Fremont County, Idaho.
    5. A small city in Linn County, Kansas.
    6. A township in Marshall County, Minnesota.
    7. A township in Morrison County, Minnesota.
    8. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
    9. A small city in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
    10. A township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
    11. A census-designated place in Greenville County, South Carolina.
    12. A city, the county seat of Turner County, South Dakota.
    13. A city in Collin County, Texas.
    14. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Texas.
    15. An unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington.

Derived terms

Noun

Parker (plural Parkers)

  1. A Parker-brand pen.
    • 1969, Laurie Lee, As I walked out one midsummer morning:
      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.

See also

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From parken +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpaʁkɐ]
  • Hyphenation: Par‧ker

Noun

Parker m (strong, genitive Parkers, plural Parker)

  1. agent noun of parken

Declension

Declension of Parker [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Parker die Parker
genitive eines des Parkers der Parker
dative einem dem Parker den Parkern
accusative einen den Parker die Parker

Hyponyms

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