park

Meaning

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. 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.

Verb

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɑɹk/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

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 .