- a program or part of a program that interprets input to a computer by recognizing key words or analysing sentence structure
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parser /ˈpɑːzə/ n
parse /pɑrs, pɑrz/USA pronunciation
v. [~ + object], parsed, pars•ing.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Grammar, Linguisticsto analyze (a sentence) in terms of its grammatical parts.
parse
(pärs, pärz),USA pronunciation v., parsed, pars•ing.
v.t.
v.i.
pars′a•ble, adj.
pars′er, n.
v.t.
- Grammar, Linguisticsto analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- Grammar, Linguisticsto describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc.
- Computingto analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar.
v.i.
- Grammar, Linguisticsto admit of being parsed.
- Latin pars part, as in pars ōrātiōnis part of speech
- 1545–55
pars′er, n.