park

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games)

   take me out to the ballpark

2. 2
   noun

   a gear position that acts as a parking brake

   the put the car in park and got out

3. 3
   noun

   a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property

   there are laws that protect the wildlife in this park

4. 4
   noun

   a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

   they went for a walk in the park

5. 5
   verb

   place temporarily

   park the car in the yard

6. 6
   noun

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

   She went to the park for a jog with him.

7. 7
   noun

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

   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 ....

8. 8
   noun

   An area used for specific purposes.

   a wagon park; an artillery 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.