park
[pʰɑɹk]
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.16 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
noun
An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
noun
An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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…"
- "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 ...."
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.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [pʰɑɹk]
- British English: /pɑːk/
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- Transitive verb
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- Intransitive verb