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Revision as of 09:06, 20 June 2017

See also: Park

English

Charles Bond Park, Yinnar, Victoria, Australia
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Etymology

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Cognate with Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”). More at parrock, paddock.

Pronunciation

Noun

park (plural parks)

  1. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
    1. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
      • 17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst
        While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.
    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
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      • 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. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
  2. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
  3. An area used for specific purposes.
    1. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.
      a wagon park;   an artillery park
    2. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
    3. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
      business park;  industrial park;  science park
    4. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
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  4. (UK) An inventory of matériel.
    A country's tank park or artillery park.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
    • 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.
    • 2010, Sandy Curtis, Dangerous Deception, Clan Destine Press, Australia, unnumbered page,
      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.
    • 2011, Antonia Magee, The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income!, John Wiley & Sons Australia, unnumbered page,
      We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.

Antonyms

Synonyms

Derived terms

terms derived from park (noun)

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Descendants

  • → Georgian: პარკი (ṗarḳi)
  • → Irish: páirc
  • → Scottish Gaelic: pàirc
  • → Welsh: parc

Translations

References

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.
    I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.
  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.
    to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.
  4. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
    • 1592, William Shakespeare, The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
      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!
  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, especially 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)
  10. (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
  11. (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park.
  12. (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.

Antonyms

(bring to a halt): unpark

Translations

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Anagrams

Breton

Noun

park ?

  1. field

Danish

Etymology

From French parc.

Pronunciation

Noun

park c (singular definite parken, plural indefinite parker)

  1. park

Inflection

Declension of park
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative park parken parker parkerne
genitive parks parkens parkers parkernes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle Dutch parc, from Old Dutch *parruk, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Doublet of perk.

Noun

park n (plural parken, diminutive parkje n)

  1. park

German

Verb

park

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

park (plural parkok)

  1. park

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
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
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		parké parkoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		parkéi parkokéi
Possessive forms of park
possessor single possession multiple possessions
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

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Template:borrowing, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parric (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

Noun

park m ?

  1. park (piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation)

Declension

Declension of park
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative park parka parki
Genitive parka parkowu parkow
Dative parkoju parkoma parkam
Accusative park parka parki
Instrumental parkom parkoma parkami
Locative parku parkoma parkach

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc

Noun

park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parker, definite plural parkene)

  1. a park (preserved green open space, usually open to the public)

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc

Noun

park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parkar, definite plural parkane)

  1. a park (as above)

Derived terms

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

park m inan

  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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse parrak, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

park c (plural parker, definite singular parken, definite plural parkerna)

  1. park (in a city)

Declension

Declension of park 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative park parken parker parkerna
Genitive parks parkens parkers parkernas

Turkish

Etymology

From French parc.

Noun

park (definite accusative parkı, plural parklar)

  1. park

Declension

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