PARKER

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• PARKER (noun)
  The noun PARKER has 2 senses:

1. United States saxophonist and leader of the bop style of jazz (1920-1955)

2. United States writer noted for her sharp wit (1893-1967)

  Familiarity information: PARKER used as a noun is rare.

• PARKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States saxophonist and leader of the bop style of jazz (1920-1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bird Parker; Charles Christopher Parker; Charlie Parker; Parker; Yardbird Parker

Instance hypernyms:

saxist; saxophonist (a musician who plays the saxophone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer noted for her sharp wit (1893-1967)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dorothy Parker; Dorothy Rothschild Parker; Parker

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

Parker spoke of you, and that brought me here to-night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mercy on us, what are the children thinking of? and Jo looked as much scandalized as if Amy and little Parker were not yet in their teens.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Last year I came up to London for the Jubilee, and I stopped at a boarding-house in Russell Square, because Parker, the vicar of our parish, was staying in it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Biologists Jennifer Brisson of the University of Rochester and Benjamin Parker of the University of Tennessee studied pea aphids and uncovered genes that influence whether aphids produce wingless or winged offspring in response to their environment.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

You remember Parker, who used to be Coxon’s manager?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew’s-harp.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the way, Jo, I think that little Parker is really getting desperate about Amy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"To hear is to obey, but March is fairer far than May," said little Parker, making a frantic effort to be both witty and tender, and getting promptly quenched by Laurie, who said...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)