Person or person means a human being, an individual --
Will each person please answer as I call your names?
The last person to leave should make sure that the lights are turned off.
Person is also a grammar term, used to label the subject of a sentence, and the matching verb form, as belonging to the speaker, those spoken to, or those spoken about --
I am the first person; you are the second person; he is the third person.
He sometimes puts on airs, and refers to himself in the third person, as "Mr. Jones".
Parson or parson means a preacher or minister --
The parson will be joining us for dinner, so behave yourselves.
You wouldn't have guessed it, but his father was an old-fashioned country parson.
Now that you know that, you can say --
"The parson stood at the door of the church, and greeted each person who entered."
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