park – English noun declension

English noun forms of park

Noun: park
Singularpark
Pluralparks

Sample 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. [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… [1994, Robert Ferro, The Blue Star:]
  • 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:]
  • a wagon park; an artillery park
  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building. [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:]
  • If a car seems to be refusing to let you shift out of park, recall that many cars have a safety interlock which requires that your foot must be pressing on the brake pedal before you can shift out of park.

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'park', Dutch Nouns 'perk', Old English Nouns 'pearroc', English Nouns 'paddock', Icelandic Nouns 'parraka'.

Verbs referencing "park"

German Nouns Park, Bulgarian Nouns парк, Russian Nouns парк, German Nouns Pferch.