PARR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Parr mean? 

• PARR (noun)
  The noun PARR has 3 senses:

1. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548)

2. a young salmon up to 2 years old

3. the young of various fishes

  Familiarity information: PARR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Catherine Parr; Parr

Instance hypernyms:

queen (the wife or widow of a king)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A young salmon up to 2 years old

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("parr" is a kind of...):

young fish (a fish that is young)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The young of various fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("parr" is a kind of...):

young fish (a fish that is young)

 Context examples 

Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed.

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

Why was it that Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and 'Old Parr' one hundred and sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men's blood in her poor veins, could not live even one day?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Another, Lucy Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few months.

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