park

See also Park

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *parric ("enclosure, pen"), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Cognate with Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”), Old Norse parrak (“enclosure, pen" also "distress, anxiety”). More at paddock.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pärk, IPA: /pɑrk/, SAMPA: /pArk/
  • (Australia, Boston) IPA: [paːk], SAMPA: [pa:k]
  • (NY) IPA: [pɒək], SAMPA: [pQ@k]
  • (New Zealand) IPA: [pɐːk], SAMPA: [p6:k]
  • (UK) IPA: [pɑːk], SAMPA: [pA:k]
  • (US) IPA: [pɑɹk], SAMPA: [pAr\k]

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k

Noun

park (plural parks)

1. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
2. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation

   Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York

   • 1994, Robert Ferro ,The Blue Star

     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…

3. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together.

   a park of wagons, a park of artillery

4. (UK) An inventory of materiél

   A country's tank park or artillery park

5. A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
6. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
7. (US) A grassy basin surrounded by mountains.
8. (soccer) the pitch, the area on which a match is played.
   1. • 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, BBC:

        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.

9. (Australian) a space in a car park

Antonyms

• (a piece of ground in or near a city): building, skyscraper, street

Synonyms

• (a piece of ground in or near a city): courtyard, garden, plaza

Derived terms

terms derived from park (noun)

amusement park ballpark car park national park

parkade skatepark theme park tank park

Translations

ground for preservation of game, etc.

Afrikaans: wildtuin (af) Arabic: حديقة (ar) (Hadiiqa) f. Catalan: parc (ca) m., parc natural (ca) m.

Japanese: 競技場 (ja) (kyōgijō) Spanish: parque (es) m. Swahili: mbuga (sw)

ground for recreation

Arabic: حديقة (ar) (Hadiiqa) f., متنزه (ar) (mútnazzah) m., بارك (ar) (bark) m. Armenian: այգի (hy) (aygi) Belarusian: парк (be) (park) m. Bulgarian: парк (bg) (park) m. Catalan: parc (ca) m. Chinese: Cantonese: 公園 (gung1 yun4) Gan: please add this translation if you can Hakka: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 公園 (cmn), 公园 (cmn) (gōngyuán) Min Dong: please add this translation if you can Min Nan: 公園 (nan), 公园 (nan) (kong-hn̂g) Dutch: park (nl) m. Esperanto: parko (eo) Finnish: puisto (fi) French: parc (fr) m., jardin public (fr) m. German: Park (de) m. Greek: πάρκο (el) (párko) n. Hebrew: פרק (he) (park) m. Hindi: बाग़ (hi) (bāġ) m. Hungarian: park (hu) Ido: parko (io)

Indonesian: taman (id) Interlingua: hortus (ia) Irish: páirc (ga) Italian: parco (it) m. Japanese: 公園 (ja) (こうえん, kōen) Kazakh: саябақ (kk) (sayabaq) Korean: 공원 (ko) (gong-won) (公園 (ko)) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: park (no) Persian: پارک (fa) (pârk) Polish: park (pl) m. Portuguese: parque (pt) m. Romanian: parc (ro) n. Russian: парк (ru) (park) m. Scottish Gaelic: pàirc (gd) f. Spanish: parque (es) m. Swahili: mbuga (sw) Swedish: park (sv) c. Thai: สวนสาธารณะ (th) (suan satharana) Ukrainian: парк (uk) (park) m. Urdu: باغ (ur) (bāġ) m. Vietnamese: công viên (vi) Volapük: legad (vo)

space occupied by animals, wagons, etc.

Catalan: parc (ca) m.

basin where oysters are grown

Swahili: mbuga (sw)

an enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting

Catalan: vedat (ca) m. Spanish: coto (es) m.

Swahili: mbuga (sw)

References

• “Park” in James F. Dunnigan and Albert Nofi (1992), Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know, Harper, ISBN 978-0688112707, p 28.

Verb

park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)

1. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

   You can park the car in front of the house.

2. (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.

   Let's park that until next week's meeting.

3. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
4. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.

   How are we parked, and bounded in a pale. — Shakespeare.

5. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.

   He really parked that one.

6. (intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.

   They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked.

7. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.

   He came in and parked himself in our living room.

   Park your bags in the hall.

8. (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, specially while awaiting other opportunities.

   We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.

9. (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)

Translations

bring to a halt

Arabic: وقّف (ar) (wáqqafa) Chinese: Cantonese: 停 (ting4) Mandarin: 停 (cmn) (tíng), 停車 (zh), 停车 (zh) (tíngchē) Dutch: parkeren (nl) Finnish: pysäköidä (fi) French: garer (fr), parquer (fr), stationner (fr) German: parken (de) Hungarian: parkol (hu), parkíroz (hu) Icelandic: leggja (is), parkera (is) Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Italian: sostare (it), parcheggiare (it) Japanese: 停まる (ja) (tomaru), 駐車する (ja) (ちゅうしゃする, chūsha-suru) (for vehicles only)

Javanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Korean: 주차하다 (ko) (jucha-hada) Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Polish: parkować / zaparkować Portuguese: estacionar (pt) Russian: ставить на стоянку (stávit’ na stojánku), парковать (ru) (parkovát’) Spanish: estacionar (es) Swahili: kuegesha (sw) Swedish: parkera (sv) (if the intention is to leave the vehicle, otherwise stanna (sv)) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

bring together in a park

Swahili: mbuga (sw)

enclose in a park

Swahili: mbuga (sw)

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Breton

Noun

park

1. field

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Danish

Etymology

From French parc.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /paːrk/, [pʰɑːɡ̊]

Noun

park c. (singular definite parken, plural indefinite parker)

1. park

Inflection

    Inflection of park

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	park	parken	parker	parkerne
genitive	parks	parkens	parkers	parkernes

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch parc, from Old Dutch park, from Frankish *parric ("enclosure, pen"), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *spar-, *par- (“beam, log”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑrk
• IPA: /pɑrk/

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Noun

park n. (plural parken, diminutive parkje)

1. park

Related terms

• perk

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German

Verb

park

1. Imperative singular of parken.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of parken.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɒrk/

Noun

park (plural parkok)

1. park

Declension

declension of park singular plural nominative park parkok accusative parkot parkokat dative parknak parkoknak instrumental parkkal parkokkal causal-final parkért parkokért translative parkká parkokká terminative parkig parkokig essive-formal parkként parkokként essive-modal - - inessive parkban parkokban superessive parkon parkokon adessive parknál parkoknál illative parkba parkokba sublative parkra parkokra allative parkhoz parkokhoz elative parkból parkokból delative parkról parkokról ablative parktól parkoktól

possessives of park possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. parkom parkjaim 2nd person sing. parkod parkjaid 3rd person sing. parkja parkjai 1st person plural parkunk parkjaink 2nd person plural parkotok parkjaitok 3rd person plural parkjuk parkjaik

Derived terms

• nemzeti park
• parkol

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Polish

Noun

park m.

1. park (e.g., a ground for recreation in a city or town)

Declension

    declension of park

	singular	plural
nominative	park	parki
genitive	parku	parków
dative	parkowi	parkom
accusative	park	parki
instrumental	parkiem	parkami
locative	parku	parkach
vocative	parku	parki

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pârk/

Noun

pȁrk m. (Cyrillic spelling па̏рк)

1. park

Declension

    declension of park

	singular	plural
nominative	park	pàrkovi
genitive	parka	parkova
dative	parku	parkovima
accusative	park	parkove
vocative	parku	parkovi
locative	parku	parkovima
instrumental	parkom	parkovima

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

park c. (pl. parker, def sing parken, def pl parkerna)

1. park (in a city)

Declension

Declension of park

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	park	parken	parker	parkerna
genitive	parks	parkens	parkers	parkernas