park
English
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 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.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pärk, IPA(key): /pɑɹk/
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Noun
park (plural parks)
- An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
- 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.
- 17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst
- 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
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- 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…
- An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
- 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.
- (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
- 1878, The San Francisco Western Lancet. a Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, volume 7, number 3:
- 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 ....
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- 1911, Edward W. Harnden, “A Western Mountaineering Summer”, in Appalachia, volume XII, number 3:
- ...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.
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- An area used for specific purposes.
- An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.
- a wagon park; an artillery park
- A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
- An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
- business park; industrial park; science park
- 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
- 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."
- An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
- 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool”, in 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.
- An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.
- (UK) An inventory of matériel.
- A country's tank park or artillery park.
- (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.
- 2003, “Johnny”, Melbourne Blackout, in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll′s Frontline, page 174,
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (a piece of ground in or near a city): building, skyscraper, street
Derived terms
- amusement park
- Asbury Park
- ballpark
- Brighton Park
- car park
- Central Park
- East Glacier Park
- Finsbury Park
- Gidea Park
- Grove Park
- Heaton Park
- Hyde Park
- King's Park
- Moor Park
- national park
- Northumberland Park
- parkade
- Park County
- parklet
- Park Rapids
- Park Royal
- parkway
- pocket park
- Raynes Park
- retail park
- skatepark
- state park
- tank park
- theme park
- Trafford Park
- trailer park
- water park
- Worcester Park
Descendants
Translations
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Verb
park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)
- (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.
- (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
- Let's park that until next week's meeting.
- (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
- to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.
- (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!
- 1592, William Shakespeare, The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.
- He really parked that one.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
- (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
- (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park.
- (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.
Antonyms
(bring to a halt): unpark
Translations
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References
- “Park” in James F. Dunnigan and Albert Nofi (1992), Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know, Harper, →ISBN, p 28.
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Anagrams
Breton
Noun
park ?
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
park c (singular definite parken, plural indefinite parker)
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch parc, from Old Dutch *parruk, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Doublet of perk.
Pronunciation
Noun
park n (plural parken, diminutive parkje n)
Related terms
Descendants
German
Verb
park
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of parken.
- (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of parken.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
park (plural parkok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
Borrowed from German Park, 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 ?
- park (piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation)
Declension
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc
Noun
park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parker, definite plural parkene)
- a park (preserved green open space, usually open to the public)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc
Noun
park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parkar, definite plural parkane)
- a park (as above)
Derived terms
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
park m inan
- park (e.g., a ground for recreation in a city or town)
- (obsolete) A scent released by goats, deer, or hares during breeding periods.
- (obsolete) Breeding period of goats, deer, or hares.
Declension
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
pȁrk m (Cyrillic spelling па̏рк)
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse parrak, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz.
Pronunciation
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Noun
park c (plural parker, definite singular parken, definite plural parkerna)
- park (in a city)
Declension
Declension of park | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | park | parken | parker | parkerna |
Genitive | parks | parkens | parkers | parkernas |
Anagrams
Turkish
Etymology
Noun
park (definite accusative parkı, plural parklar)
Declension
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | park | |
Definite accusative | parkı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | park | parklar |
Definite accusative | parkı | parkları |
Dative | parka | parklara |
Locative | parkta | parklarda |
Ablative | parktan | parklardan |
Genitive | parkın | parkların |
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