parker
parker Lexical Profile
parker Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A person who parks a motor vehicle, especially when described in terms of their skill, manner, or frequency of parking.
"The city council introduced new permit rules to discourage commuter parkers from filling residential streets."
Historically, an official custodian or gamekeeper in charge of a royal, noble, or public park.
"In medieval England, the parker was responsible for maintaining the boundary fences and protecting the lord's deer from poachers."
• Rhymes for parker
Word Origin & Etymology
Originally from Middle English parker, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French parquier ('keeper of a park'), derived from parc ('enclosed hunting reserve'). The modern sense referring to someone who parks a motor vehicle is a 20th-century formation from the verb park plus the agentive suffix -er.