park

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English

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pärk, IPA^(key): /pɑɹk/
  • (General Australian, Boston, New Zealand) IPA^(key): [pʰäːk]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [pʰɒək]
  • (Philippine) IPA^(key): [pɑɹk]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːk]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [pʰɑɹk]
  • (Ghana) IPA^(key): /pɐk/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k

Noun

park (plural parks)

1. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
   1. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
      • 17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst

        While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

   2. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
   3. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
2. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
3. An area used for specific purposes.
   1. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

   2. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
   3. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
   4. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
4. (UK) An inventory of matériel.

5. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
   • 2003, “Johnny”, "Melbourne Blackout", in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll′s Frontline, page 174,

     We got to the 9^th Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro′s car right out the front.

   • 2011, Antonia Magee, The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income!, John Wiley & Sons Australia, unnumbered page,

     We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.

Synonyms

• (a piece of ground in or near a city): courtyard, garden, plaza

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "a piece of ground in or near a city"): building, skyscraper, street

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Dhivehi: ޕާކު (pāku)
• → Georgian: პარკი (ṗarḳi)
• → Hindi: पार्क (pārk)
• → Irish: páirc
• → Japanese: パーク (pāku)
• → Scottish Gaelic: pàirc
• → Welsh: parc

Translations

Verb

park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)

1. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

   Antonym: unpark

2. (transitive, informal, figurative) 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, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.

6. (intransitive, slang, US) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
7. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
8. (transitive, finance) 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, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
11. (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park.
12. (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “Park” in James F. Dunnigan and Albert Nofi (1992), Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know, Harper, →ISBN, p 28.
• Park in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Jonathon Green (2024) “park v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• KPRA, Karp, Prak

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch park, from Middle Dutch parc, from Old Dutch *parruk, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Noun

park (plural parke, diminutive parkie)

1. park

Breton

Noun

park ?

1. field

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَرْق (barq).

Noun

park m

1. lightning

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 156

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpark]

Noun

park m inan (related adjective parkový)

1. park

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• park in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• park in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• park in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From French parc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːrk/, [pʰɑːɡ̊]

Noun

park c (singular definite parken, plural indefinite parker)

1. park

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch parc, from Old Dutch *parruk, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Doublet of perk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑrk/
• Hyphenation: park
• Rhymes: -ɑrk
• Homophone: Park

Noun

park n (plural parken, diminutive parkje n)

1. park

Derived terms

Related terms

• perk

Descendants

• Afrikaans: park
• → German: Park (partially)
  • → Lower Sorbian: park
• → West Frisian: park

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑrk/, [ˈpɑrkˑ]

Noun

park (genitive pargi, partitive parki)

1. park

Declension

Derived terms

German

Pronunciation

Verb

park

1. singular imperative of parken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of parken

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒrk]
• Rhymes: -ɒrk

Noun

park (plural parkok)

1. park

Declension

Derived terms

• nemzeti park

See also

• parkol

Further reading

• park in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parric (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /park/

Noun

park m inan

1. park (piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation)

Declension

Derived terms

• parkowy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• parc, parck, perke, paric

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French parc, from Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure”).

Noun

park (plural parks)

1. enclosure

Descendants

• English: park
• Yola: park

References

• “park, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc.

Noun

park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parker, definite plural parkene)

1. a park (preserved green open space, usually open to the public)

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc.

Noun

park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parkar, definite plural parkane)

1. a park (as above)

Derived terms

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /park/
• Rhymes: -ark
• Syllabification: park

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin parcus.

Noun

park m inan (related adjective parkowy)

1. park (ground for recreation in a city or town)

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

park m inan

1. (obsolete) scent released by goats, deer, or hares during breeding periods
2. (biology, obsolete) breeding period of goats, deer, or hares

Declension

Further reading

• park in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• park in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• park in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pârk/

Noun

pȁrk m (Cyrillic spelling па̏рк)

1. park

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse parrak, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

park c (plural parker, definite singular parken, definite plural parkerna)

1. park (in a city)

Declension

Anagrams

• karp

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پارق (park), from French parc, from Middle French parc, from Old French parc, from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus (“enclosure”), from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, fenced-in area”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑɾk/

Noun

park (definite accusative parkı, plural parklar)

1. park

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English park, from Old French parc, from Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔːk/

Noun

park

1. inclosure

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867