park

Noun

1. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
2. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
3. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
4. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
5. An area used for specific purposes.
6. An area used for specific purposes.
7. An area used for specific purposes.
8. An area used for specific purposes.
9. (UK) An inventory of matériel.
10. (Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
11. 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.)

Verb

1. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
3. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
4. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
5. (transitive) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.
6. (US, intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
7. (informal, reflexive, sometimes, transitive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
8. (transitive) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
9. (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
10. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
11. (dated, intransitive) To promenade or drive in a park.
12. (dated, intransitive) To display style or gait on a park drive.

Opposite of

unpark

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɑɹk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: park

Cognate with Dutch: perk

Cognate with Old High German: pfarrih

Cognate with Old English: pearroc

Cognate with English: paddock

Cognate with Old Norse: parrak

Cognate with Icelandic: parraka

In summary

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.

Synonyms

garden

orchard

grove

green

parking lot

square

stop

🛑

parkland

common

public garden

public park

moor

car park

parking area

station

🚉

forest

ballpark

plantation

dock

commons

hover

hunting ground

immobilize

lawn

leave

leave alone

leave behind

lot

national park

🏞️

paradise

pasture

plaza

pleasance

pleasure-ground

preserve

promenade

pull up

put down

reserve

resign

set down

sheet

store

submit

walk out

yard

bowling green

break camp

foreswear

theme park

Translations

parc

🏞️

parque

🏞️

parco

parcheggiare

🏞️

stationner

🏞️

Park

🏞️

estacionar

parken

🏞️

parque

🏞️

πάρκο

aparcar

🏞️

estacionar

🏞️

garer

jardin public

park

🏞️

Sentences

She lives in the park .

However , the cat is very rare now even in the national park .

The contruction of a new theme park is immediately halted for an unknown reason .

The park is staffed by an award-winning Jeff Ellis and Associates certified lifeguard team .