English

Alternative forms

• Bak, Pak, Bark, Pack

Proper noun

Park

1. A surname​, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (박 ‎(Bak), 朴). The third most common Korean surname

Translations

German

Etymology

A doublet of inherited Pferch ‎(“pen [for animals]”). The form Park was first borrowed in the 15th/16th centuries from Middle Dutch park, in which the word had developed the sense “recreation park, enclosed hunting grounds” under the influence of Old French parc. German Park remained sporadic, however, until it was reinforced (or borrowed anew) from modern French parc and English park from the late 17th century on. For the further origin of all mentioned cognates compare Pferch and park.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁk/, [paʁk], [paɐ̯k] (standard)
• IPA^(key): /paːk/ (common; chiefly northern and central Germany)

Noun

Park m ‎(genitive Parks or Parkes, plural Parks or Parke or Pärke)

1. park
   • 1878, Arnold von Lasaulx, Aus Irland, Reiseskizzen und Studien, page 133:

     Auch die Vegetation des Parkes war hier, wie allerwärts in Irland, eine bewundernswerthe.

     The vegetation of the park, too, was here, as everywhere in Ireland, admirable.

   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 79:

     Aber oftmals lief die kleine Dorothee […] noch viel weiter, bis dorthin, wo der regelmäßige Garten sich in einen weiten natürlichen Park verlor und allmählich in Wiesen und Wald überging.

     But often the little Dorothee […] walked still much farther until there, where the regular garden faded away into a wide natural park and gradually fused into meadows and woods.

   • 2008, Marc Vesper, Ein Single kommt immer allein..., page 226:

     Und der Herbst bliess draussen die Blätter von den Bäumen, durch Gärten, über Strassen, durch Pärke und über Dächer.

     And outside, fall blew the leaves from the trees, through gardens, across streets, through parks and over rooftops.

Usage notes

• The predominant plural is Parks. The form Parke is somewhat less common. The form Pärke does occur, but will strike most speakers as unusual.

Derived terms

• Fuhrpark
• Tierpark
• Vergnügungspark

English

Charles Bond Park, Yinnar, Victoria, Australia

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, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
      • Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

        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.

      Hyde Park in London;  Central Park in New York‎

      • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

        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.

      • 1994, Robert Ferro,The Blue Star:

        I roamed the streets and parks, as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…

   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.
   • 1878, The San Francisco Western Lancet. a Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, volume 7, number 3:

     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 ....

   • 1895, Whitman Cross, Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Geology and Mining Industries of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, page 54:

     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....

   • 1897, The Colliery Engineer, volume 17, page 207:

     The so-called park is a very broad, open valley,between the Sangre de Cristo range on the east, and the volcanic San Juan and Conejos ranges on the west

   • 1911, Edward W. Harnden, “A Western Mountaineering Summer”, in Appalachia, volume XII:

     ...the ridges flatten and, higher up, before reaching the upper snow-fields of the mountain, broaden out into high plateaus, the beautiful so-called parks or meadows.

   • 1975, Frits Van der Leeden, Lawrence A. Cerrillo, David William Miller, Ground-water pollution problems in the Northwestern United States:

     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.
   1. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

      a wagon park;   an artillery park‎

   2. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
   3. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.

      business park;  industrial park;  science park‎

      • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

        Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

   4. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
      • 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool”, in BBC:

        But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.

4. (Britain) An inventory of matériel.

   A country's tank park or artillery park.‎

5. (Australia, New Zealand) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
   • 2003, “Johnny”, Melbourne Blackout, in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from ****: 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.

   • 2010, Sandy Curtis, Dangerous Deception, Clan Destine Press, Australia, unnumbered page,

     Once they′d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn′t want to be delayed.

   • 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.

Antonyms

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

Synonyms

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

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 978-0688112707, p 28.
• Park in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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.

   You can park the car in front of the house.

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

2. (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.

   Let's park that until next week's meeting.

3. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.

   to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.

4. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
   • Shakespeare

     How are we parked, and bounded in a pale.

5. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.

   He really parked that one.

6. (intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.

   They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked.

7. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.

   He came in and parked himself in our living room.

   Park your bags in the hall.

8. (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.

   We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.

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.

Antonyms

(bring to a halt): unpark

Translations

Breton

Noun

park ?

1. field

Danish

Etymology

From French parc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːrk/, [pʰɑːɡ̊]

Noun

park c (singular definite parken, plural indefinite parker)

1. park

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑrk
• IPA^(key): /pɑrk/

Etymology

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

Noun

park n ‎(plural parken, diminutive parkje n)

1. park

Related terms

• perk

German

Verb

park

1. Imperative singular of parken.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of parken.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒrk]

Noun

park ‎(plural parkok)

1. park

Declension

Derived terms

• nemzeti park
• parkol

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowing 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

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

Declension

Derived terms

• parkowy

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

• fornøyelsespark
• nasjonalpark
• temapark

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

• fornøyelsespark
• nasjonalpark
• temapark

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /park/

Noun

park m inan

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

Declension

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