What's the difference between father and parson?

Father


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
  • (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
  • (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
  • (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.
  • (n.) A senator of ancient Rome.
  • (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
  • (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
  • (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
  • (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.
  • (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
  • (v. t.) To provide with a father.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (2) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
  • (3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (4) My father has never met him but has a different view.
  • (5) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (6) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (7) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (8) I preferred the Times version, as my father would have done had he any interest in Sting.
  • (9) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (10) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (11) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
  • (12) The dropout rate was only 5% in children whose mothers were educated at the high school level and above compared with 14% in children whose father's education was at this level.
  • (13) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
  • (14) A big majority, 60%, died in hospital; 20% in care homes, like my father; 6% in hospices, like my mother.
  • (15) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
  • (16) Noor Tawane, now a middle-aged father of seven and businessman in the camp, was one of Dadaab’s first residents.
  • (17) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
  • (18) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (19) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imogen and her father, John Hull, before he lost his sight.

Parson


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
  • (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (2) But British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons famously got it wrong, reporting that the shah's position was secure as late as 1978.
  • (3) Nick Parsons, head of strategy at National Australia Bank, said: "Europe's leaders probably thought they had bought themselves three months.
  • (4) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
  • (5) The decision to move Parsons and Woodhouse to the Conservative party payroll represents an embarrassment for Cameron, who strongly defended paying them from public funds during his tour of China last week.
  • (6) But Steve Parsons, the club secretary of Staines Town Football Club, who campaigned against the change, said: "The council have decided they don't want to be linked with the Ali G show.
  • (7) In its original format the show was was presented by Mark Lawson from 1994 until 2005, when Kearney and Wark took over, and in the early years often featured a regular panel of Tom Paulin, Allison Pearson and Tony Parsons.
  • (8) The five projects selected are those that the government's engineering consultants, Parsons Brinckerhoff, deemed to be based on the most proven technology.
  • (9) In a statement released on Thursday night, Parsons’ employers, Business and Commercial Finance Club said they were suspending Josh from work with immediate effect pending investigation into his alleged role in the Métro incident.
  • (10) "I have a sense that he smoked because he was addicted, as I was," Parsons said.
  • (11) The salaries of Parsons and Woodhouse, between £36,000 and £44,000 each, will now be paid for by the Conservative party.
  • (12) The European Union and the International Monetary Fund had handed enormous power to the Greeks, Parsons argued, just as Theseus handed power to Hippolyta by agreeing to lay down his sword.
  • (13) Nick Parsons, head of strategy at NAB Capital, said that any bail-out of LDV by the government was unlikely to lead to a single extra van being sold.
  • (14) Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed allegations that the government's engineering consultants , Parsons Brinckerhoff, had miscalculated the costs of a tidal lagoon project of the kind championed by FOE.
  • (15) Two leading sociological theorists of mental illness, Parsons and Scheff, depict the mentally ill as enacting a deviant social role which sets them apart from others.
  • (16) The perfused in situ rat jejunum preparation originally described by Hanson and Parsons (1976) was adapted for use in absorption and metabolism studies with drugs.
  • (17) According to a Cabinet Office source, at least one senior minister questioned the appropriateness of hiring Parsons as a civil servant but the appointment was pushed through with the support of Cameron and his director of communications, Andy Coulson.
  • (18) All of Fort McMurray, with the exception of Parson’s Creek, was under a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday, said Robin Smith, press secretary for the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo in the Canadian province.
  • (19) Marshall did not give details on redundancies and Parsons Brinckerhoff is the only Balfour Beatty business up for sale.
  • (20) A No 10 source said: "The PM has decided that Andrew Parsons and Nicky Woodhouse will no longer be paid for by the taxpayer.