PARSONS

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• PARSONS (noun)
  The noun PARSONS has 1 sense:

1. United States sociologist (1902-1979)

  Familiarity information: PARSONS used as a noun is very rare.

• PARSONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States sociologist (1902-1979)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Parsons; Talcott Parsons

Instance hypernyms:

sociologist (a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society)

 Context examples 

“He ain’t down here!” Parsons called back.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They, an' all grims an' signs an' warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome beuk-bodies an' railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an' to get folks to do somethin' that they don't other incline to.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The young Mrs. Eleanors and Mrs. Bridgets—starched up into seeming piety, but with heads full of something very different—especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at—and, in those days, I fancy parsons were very inferior even to what they are now.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Parsons took the wheel, and the pursuit continued.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“That’s all right all right,” Parsons spoke up.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“He’ll know as soon as ever he claps eyes on us,” Parsons replied.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)