- park´like´
- park «pahrk», noun, verb.–n.1. land set apart for the pleasure of the public: »
Many cities have beautiful parks. Hyde Park is in London. A park may be only a tiny bit of green in a large city, with a few flowers, trees, and benches, or it may be a natural wilderness larger than some states (Philip L. Seman).
2. land set apart for wild animals: »a game park.
3. British. a place to leave an automobile or other vehicle, such as a baby carriage, for a time: »Motorists with time on their hands have hunted through parks of two and three hundred cars (Punch).
4. a) a space where army vehicles, supplies, artillery, and other such equipment are put when an army camps: »A torch gleamed momentarily in the transport park across the road (Graham Greene).
b) the group so assembled.5. the grounds around a fine house: »the turrets of an ancient chateau rising out of the trees of its walled park (Washington Irving).
6. U.S. a high plateaulike valley among mountains.7. an open space in a forest or wood.8. (in English law) an enclosed tract of land held by royal grant for keeping game.9. a place set aside for oyster breeding: »Oysters are obtained chiefly from cultivated parks in Chesapeake Bay (White and Renner).
–v.t.1. a) to leave (an automobile, truck, or other vehicle) for a time in a certain place: »Park your car here.
b) to place (a space vehicle) in orbit temporarily: »The satellite was parked about the earth before being transferred to a lunar orbit.
2. to assemble and arrange (army vehicles, artillery, or other such equipment) in a park.3. Informal, Figurative. to place, put, or leave: »to park oneself or one's coat on a chair.
4. enclose in, as if in, or as a park.–v.i.to park an automobile, truck, or other vehicle: »He parked near the library.
╂[< Old French parc < Medieval Latin parricus enclosure, probably < Germanic (compare Old English pearroc enclosure, paddock)]–park´er, noun.–park´like´, adjective.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.