- 1牧師（尤指舊時英國教區牧師）。現在口語較常說 pastor / 牧師，parson 偏書面、偏古。
A parson is a Christian priest or minister, especially the one who looks after a parish — a local church and the people around it. The word feels old-fashioned and mainly British; you meet it in older books, village stories, and church history more than in everyday talk. Today people more often say priest, minister, vicar, or pastor, depending on the church. A parson was typically a Protestant minister, often in the Church of England, not a Catholic priest in the usual modern sense — though the old word was used more loosely in some places. It is a person-word, not a building. You would not call a young youth-group leader a parson. In tone it can sound respectful, or a little dusty and comic, as in ‘the village parson’.
組成From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman / Old French persone (‘parson, person’), from Medieval Latin persona (‘parson, person’), from Latin persona (‘person’). It is a doublet of person and persona — same Latin source, different journeys into English.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Parsonname
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A surname.
parsonnoun/ˈpɑːs(ə)n/
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An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law.
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A Protestant minister.
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historicalA Roman Catholic priest of an independent parish church.
- a lewde curate, A parson benyfyced But nothynge well advysed.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。