park
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
ball-games
baseball
business
finance
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.
Inflected forms:
form: parks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
pos: noun
examples: She went to the park for a jog with him.
17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst
While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.
gloss: An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
pos: noun
examples: Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
I roamed the streets and parks, as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…
gloss: An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
pos: noun
gloss: A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The mountain region thus limited consists of extensive and often level-floored valleys, sometimes many miles broad, and elevated 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea, called "parks" in local topography, which are interposed between innumerable rocky mountain ridges ....
High Park is a depression of 10 or 12 square miles in extent […] at a general elevation of 7,500 feet. Its smooth floor is partly due to volcanic tuff of the western volcanic area, but chielfly to a find lake-bed deposit of yellowish sandstone....
The so-called park is a very broad, open valley,between the Sangre de Cristo range on the east, and the volcanic San Juan and Conejos ranges on the west
...the ridges flatten and, higher up, before reaching the upper snow-fields of the mountain, broaden out into high plateaus, the beautiful so-called parks or meadows.
Several structural basins, so-called "parks" within the crystalline rocks, are underlain by alluvial and terrace deposits, and in some cases, by Tertiary sediments.
gloss: An area used for specific purposes.
pos: noun
examples: a wagon park; an artillery park
gloss: An area used for specific purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: An area used for specific purposes.
pos: noun
examples: business park; industrial park; science park
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
gloss: An area used for specific purposes.
pos: noun
examples: But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.
gloss: An inventory of matériel.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: A country's tank park or artillery park.
gloss: A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
colloquial
examples: 2003, “Johnny”, "Melbourne Blackout", in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll′s Frontline, page 174,
We got to the 9ᵗʰ Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro′s car right out the front.
Once they′d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn′t want to be delayed.
We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.
gloss: The gear into which one shifts an automatic transmission when one is parking a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol P on a shifter's labeling.)
pos: noun
examples: If a car seems to be refusing to let you shift out of park, recall that many cars have a safety interlock which requires that your foot must be pressing on the brake pedal before you can shift out of park.
gloss: To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can park the car in front of the house.
I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.
Parking is by app, which (when it works) is good. But £7.70 to park is extortionate, so GTR needs to look at reducing that.
gloss: To defer (a matter) until a later date.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
informal
transitive
examples: Let's park that until next week's meeting.
The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.
gloss: To bring together in a park, or compact body.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.
gloss: To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: O, negligent and heedless discipline!
How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,
A little herd of England's timorous deer,
Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
gloss: To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He really parked that one.
gloss: To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
slang
examples: They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked.
"What did you do after that?" he asked. - "Went parking over at Silver Lake," replied Betty without hesitation. "Why?" - "I just wondered. Have fun?" "As a matter of fact, I did. Marty's a swell dancer." "That's not what I meant." "What did you mean?" - "I mean after. Parking." - "Yes I did […]"
A. Well, I had heard that it was used for parking place, but I never went parking there. Q. Excuse me? A. I had heard that it had been used for a parking place, but I had never gone parking there. Q. When you say “Parking place,” what do you mean? A. With a guy and a girl.
The Phyllis and me go "parking." This is a very American thing to me, this "parking,” but Phyllis says that this is what couples in this country do when they are dating. We can't go to her house because her parents are there which is okay with me. / We are parking on a quiet street and we get in the backseat of my car. We begin to kiss and I start to feel her body.
Tim and I never went parking when we were dating, but now that we've been married, it's been a fun date once in a while. (OK, we never actually leave the driveway, but the car was still parked.)
They were parking out near the hills. It's a popular spot for submarine races. They went for a little moonlit stroll. I'm sure they had nightmares after what they saw. Mary Alice was hanging from a tree by her bare feet. Naked.
They had gone to see the Robert De Niro/Liza Minnelli flick, New York, New York, before driving back to Bensonhurst and parking on a quiet street. As they kissed, Berkowitz opened fire
gloss: To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
pos: verb
tags: informal
reflexive
sometimes
transitive
examples: He came in and parked himself in our living room.
Park your bags in the hall.
"Entertain M. Paul while I go and get my shoes. I parked 'em under a rosebush."
[S]o I rode home on my brand new tricycle to find the rest of the family parked in front of the box.
gloss: To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.
gloss: To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
pos: verb
tags: Internet
gloss: To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To promenade or drive in a park.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
gloss: To display style or gait on a park drive.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
Antonyms: building
skyscraper
street
Derived words: Nouns
Proper nouns
aerial park
aeropark
agropark
airpark
Albany Park
amusement park
antipark
auto park
ball park
ball-park
ballpark
ball-park estimate
ball park estimate
ball-park estimation
ball park estimation
ball park figure
bark park
Beaumont Park
biopark
boat park
Brunswick Park
business park
Campbell Park
caravan park
car park
country park
cyberpark
dispark
distribution park
dog park
drift park
Elmwood Park
empark
energy park
English landscape park
Franklin Park
fun park
game park
geopark
hit it out of the park
hit one out of the ball park
hit out of the park
holiday park
impark
industrial park
inside-the-park homer
involuntary park
knock it out of the park
knock one out of the ball park
knock one out of the park
knock the ball out of the park
linear park
MacArthur Park
memorial park
micropark
midpark
minipark
mobile home park
national park
needle park
nonpark
paper park
parallel park
parkade
park connector
parker
parkette
parkful
park-goer
parkgoer
parkgoing
parkie
parkish
parkitecture
park-keeper
parkkeeper
parkland
Park Lane
parkleaves
parkless
parklet
Parklife
parklife
park light
parklike
parkly
parkomane
parkomania
park ranger
parkrunner
parkside
parkward
parkwards
parkway
parkwide
parky
pickle park
playpark
play park
pocket park
provincial park
retail park
Richton Park
Ridgefield Park
riverpark
Roselle Park
safari park
science park
skate park
skatepark
snow park
splash park
state park
stroll in the park
tank park
technopark
terrain park
theme park
traffic park
trailer park
trailer park trash
trolley park
walk in the park
water park
wildlife park
wind park
zoological park
zoopark
double-park
mispark
overpark
parkability
parkable
park and bark
park and ride
park-and-ride
park a tiger
park in
park that thought
park the beef bus in tuna town
park the bus
park up
repark
self-parking
start and park
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: park
lang: Albanian
word: park
lang: Amharic
word: መናፈሻ
roman: mänafäša
lang: Arabic
word: حَدِيقَة
roman: ḥadīqa
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَنَزَّه
roman: mutanazzah
lang: Arabic
word: مُنْتَزَه
roman: muntazah
lang: Arabic
word: حَدِيقَة
roman: ḥadīga
lang: Arabic
word: حَدِيقَة
roman: ḥadīqa
lang: Armenian
word: այգի
roman: aygi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: park
lang: Basque
word: parke
lang: Belarusian
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Bengali
word: পার্ক
roman: park
lang: Bulgarian
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Burmese
word: ပန်းခြံ
roman: pan:hkram
lang: Catalan
word: parc
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 公園 /公园
roman: gung¹ jyun⁴
lang: Chinese
word: гунйүан
roman: gunyüan
lang: Chinese
word: 公園 /公园
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 公園 /公园
roman: gōngyuán
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 公園 /公园
roman: ¹kon-yoe
lang: Czech
word: park
lang: Danish
word: park
lang: Dutch
word: park
lang: Elfdalian
word: park
lang: Erzya
word: чувтума
roman: čuvtuma
lang: Esperanto
word: parko
lang: Estonian
word: park
lang: Estonian
word: puiestik
lang: Faroese
word: viðarlund
lang: Finnish
word: puisto
lang: Finnish
word: viheralue
lang: French
word: parc
lang: French
word: jardin public
lang: Galician
word: parque
lang: Georgian
word: პარკი
roman: ṗarḳi
lang: German
word: Park
lang: Greek
word: πάρκο
roman: párko
lang: Ancient Greek
word: παράδεισος
roman: parádeisos
lang: Greenlandic
word: parki
lang: Greenlandic
word: naatsiiviliarsuaq
lang: Hebrew
word: פַּרְק
roman: park
lang: Hindi
word: क्रीड़ास्थल
roman: krīṛāsthal
lang: Hindi
word: क्रीड़ावन
roman: krīṛāvan
lang: Hindi
word: वाटिका
roman: vāṭikā
lang: Hindi
word: उद्यान
roman: udyān
lang: Hungarian
word: park
lang: Icelandic
word: lystigarður
lang: Icelandic
word: skrúðgarður
lang: Icelandic
word: garður
lang: Ido
word: parko
lang: Indonesian
word: taman
lang: Interlingua
word: hortus
lang: Irish
word: páirc
lang: Italian
word: parco
lang: Japanese
word: 公園
roman: kōen
lang: Kannada
word: ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ
roman: udyānavana
lang: Kazakh
word: саябақ
roman: saäbaq
lang: Khmer
word: ឧទ្យាន
roman: ʼuttyiən
lang: Korean
word: 공원
roman: gong'won
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: park
lang: Kyrgyz
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Lao
word: ສວນສາທາ
roman: sūan sā thā
lang: Lao
word: ສວນ
roman: sūan
lang: Latin
word: hortī
lang: Latin
word: parcum
lang: Latvian
word: parks
lang: Lithuanian
word: parkas
lang: Lithuanian
word: sodynas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Park
lang: Macedonian
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Malay
word: taman
lang: Maltese
word: park
lang: Māori
word: papa rēhia
lang: Māori
word: pāka
lang: Mongolian
word: цэцэрлэг
roman: cecerleg
lang: Mongolian
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: park
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: park
lang: Occitan
word: pargue
lang: Odia
word: ପାର୍କ
roman: pārka
lang: Pashto
word: پارک
roman: pārk
lang: Iranian Persian
word: پارْک
roman: pârk
lang: Polish
word: park
lang: Portuguese
word: parque
lang: Romanian
word: parc
lang: Romansh
word: parc
lang: Russian
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Northern Sami
word: párka
lang: Sanskrit
word: उद्यान
roman: udyāna
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pàirc
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: па̏рк
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pȁrk
lang: Sinhalese
word: උද්යානය
roman: udyānaya
lang: Slovak
word: park
lang: Slovene
word: park
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: park
lang: Spanish
word: parque
lang: Swahili
word: mbuga
lang: Swedish
word: park
lang: Tagalog
word: parke
lang: Tagalog
word: liwasan
lang: Tajik
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Tamil
word: பூங்கா
roman: pūṅkā
lang: Tatar
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Telugu
word: ఉపవనము
roman: upavanamu
lang: Telugu
word: ఉద్యానవనము
roman: udyānavanamu
lang: Tetum
word: parke
lang: Thai
word: สวนสาธารณะ
roman: sǔuan-sǎa-taa-rá-ná
lang: Thai
word: อุทยาน
roman: ùt-tá-yaan
lang: Thai
word: สวน
roman: sǔuan
lang: Tibetan
word: གླིང་ག
roman: gling ga
lang: Tibetan
word: བཞུགས་གླིང
roman: bzhugs gling
lang: Tigrinya
word: መናፈሻ
roman: mänafäša
lang: Turkish
word: park
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: باغچه
roman: bağçe
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: باغ
roman: bağ
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: جنت
roman: cennet
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فردوس
roman: firdevs
lang: Turkmen
word: park
lang: Ukrainian
word: парк
roman: park
lang: Urdu
word: باغ
roman: bāġ
lang: Urdu
word: پارْک
roman: pārk
lang: Uyghur
word: باغ
roman: bagh
lang: Uyghur
word: باغچا
roman: baghcha
lang: Uyghur
word: پارك
roman: park
lang: Uzbek
word: park
lang: Vietnamese
word: công viên
lang: Volapük
word: legad
lang: Welsh
word: parc
lang: Yiddish
word: פּאַרק
roman: park
lang: Bulgarian
word: заграждам
roman: zagraždam