Park

Quick meaning: Park is a noun meaning An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
2. An area used for specific purposes.
3. (UK) An inventory of matériel.
4. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
5. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
6. (transitive, informal, figurative) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
7. (automotive) The gear into which one shifts an automatic transmission when one is parking a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol P on a shifter's labeling.)

Example Sentences

A country's tank park or artillery park.

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

Several structural basins, so-called "parks" within the crystalline rocks, are underlain by alluvial and terrace deposits, and in some cases, by Tertiary sediments.

...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.

Word Forms

• parks
• parking
• parked

Synonyms for park

Depending on context, synonyms include courtyard, garden, plaza, common, commons, ballpark.

Antonyms for park

Common opposites include building, skyscraper, street, unpark.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include green, commons, common, ballpark, yard, backyard.

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