park

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


park

parkový (adjective)
park (nominative singular)
parky (nominative plural)
parku (genitive singular)
parků (genitive plural)
parku (dative singular)
parkům (dative plural)
park (accusative singular)
parky (accusative plural)
parku (singular vocative)
parky (plural vocative)
parku (locative singular)
parcích (locative plural)
parkem (instrumental singular)
parky (instrumental plural)


park

head

park c (singular definite parken, plural indefinite parker)

parken (definite singular)
parker (indefinite plural)
park (indefinite nominative singular)
parken (definite nominative singular)
parker (indefinite nominative plural)
parkerne (definite nominative plural)
parks (genitive indefinite singular)
parkens (definite genitive singular)
parkers (genitive indefinite plural)
parkernes (definite genitive plural)


park

We hebben een picknick in het park.

Het park was vol met mensen genietend van de zon.

The park was filled with people enjoying the sun.

Kinderen speelden in het park.

nl-noun

park n (plural parken, diminutive parkje n)

parken (plural)
parkje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: park

→ German: Park (partially)
→ Lower Sorbian: park

→ West Frisian: park

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


park

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.

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.

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.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

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…

A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.

An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.

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 ....

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

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....

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

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

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

...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.

1911, Edward W. Harnden, “A Western Mountaineering Summer”, in Appalachia, volume XII, number 3:

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

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

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

a wagon park; an artillery park

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

A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

business park; industrial park; science park

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."

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

An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.

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.

2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool”, in BBC:

An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.

A country's tank park or artillery park.

2003, “Johnny”, "Melbourne Blackout", in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll′s Frontline, page 174,
We got to the 9ᵗʰ Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro′s car right out the front.

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.

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

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.

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.

building

antonym(s) of “a piece of ground in or near a city”

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.