park

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Meaning

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. 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. An inventory of matériel.
10. (colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.

public garden

public park

parking area

pleasure-ground

hold still

leave somewhere for a time

dispark

pleasure-garden

public walk

woodlet

green space

oyster-park

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɑɹk/

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.