park

UK /pɑːk/ US [pʰɑɹk]

name 6noun 5verb 5

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

local | city | public | country

national

Visitors from around the world travel to Yellowstone, one of America's oldest national parks.

safari, wildlife | amusement, leisure, theme

VERB + PARK

go to

After school, the children go to the park to play on the swings and slides.

landscape, lay out

The city decided to landscape the old park with new trees and walking paths.

PARK + NOUN

bench

ranger

A park ranger helped us identify the different bird species during our nature walk.

PREP

at a/the ~

My children like to play on the swings at the park near our house.

in a/the ~

The children played on the grass in a park near their school.

(verb.)

ADV

carefully, neatly, well | badly | illegally

discreetly

She discreetly parked her car two blocks away so her boss wouldn't see it.

Definitions

noun

An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

She went to the park for a jog with him.

17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York

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.

An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.

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 ....

High Park is a depression of 10 or 12 square miles in extent […] at a general elevation of 7,500 feet. Its smooth floor is partly due to volcanic tuff of the western volcanic area, but chielfly to a find lake-bed deposit of yellowish sandstone....

An area used for specific purposes.

a wagon park; an artillery park

verb

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.

To defer (a matter) until a later date.

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.

To bring together in a park, or compact body.

to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.

To enclose in a park, or as in a park.

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!

To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.

He really parked that one.

name

An English surname.

A river in central Connecticut.

A village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref C 5802).

A large area of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland.

A community and ward in Merthyr Tydfil borough, Wales.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseba

ballpark

noun — a large area of land preserved in its natural state as publi

parkland

noun — a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

walk in the park

Something easy or pleasant.

High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes.

trailer park trash

Alternative form of trailer trash.

I didn't wear my “Trailer Park Trash” T-shirt that day.

park that thought

Alternative form of hold that thought.

park the bus

To attempt to stop the opposition team from scoring a goal by playing extremely defensively and placing as many players as possible behind the ball.

England goalkeeper Gordon Banks resisted everything Liverpool threw at him that day, as City parked the bus and banked on snatching the vital single goal and then holding on.

Example Bank

She went to the park for a jog with him.

Wiktionary

17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

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Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York

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You can park the car in front of the house.

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I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.

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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.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, park is marked as figuratively, informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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