/ Dictionary / Index P parse: Meaning and Definition of Find definitions for: parse Pronunciation: (pärs, pärz), [key] — v., parsed, pars•ing. —v.t. to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc. to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc. to analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar. —v.i. to admit of being parsed. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease. See also: parse (Thesaurus) pars parsec Related Content Daily Word Quiz: careening Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language