park
//pɑɹk//
Forms
- Plural
- parks
- present (v1)
- park
- past (v2)
- parked
- past participle (v3)
- parked
- present participle
- parking
- 3rd person singular
- parks
Definitions
1.An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
- She went to the park for a jog with him.
- 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.
2.A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
- Several structural basins, so-called "parks" within the crystalline rocks, are underlain by alluvial and terrace deposits, and in some cases, by Tertiary sediments.
3.An area used for specific purposes.
- There's a park behind our house.
- Have you ever been to that Japanese restaurant on Park Street?
- How big is this park?
4.An inventory of matériel.
- A country's tank park or artillery park.
1.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.
- Parking is by app, which (when it works) is good. But £7.70 to park is extortionate, so GTR needs to look at reducing that.
2.To defer (a matter) until a later date.(informal)
- Let's park that until next week's meeting.
- The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.
3.To bring together in a park, or compact body.
4.To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #719
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”).