parkway

C2+ Topic:Places & Geography

US /ˈpɑrkweɪ/ UK /ˈpɑːkweɪ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a broad landscaped road, often through a park or scenic area

They drove home along the tree-lined parkway at dusk.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a broad landscaped road,... avenue boulevard drive highway thoroughfare

Word family

Related forms park driveway

Etymology

A compound of park + way, coined in American English in the late 19th century. Park comes via Old French parc from Medieval Latin parricus 'enclosure'; way is native English, from Old English weg.

parricus Latin weg Old English

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Places & Geography Word Formation & Derivatives

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# parkway

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈpɑrkweɪ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈpɑːkweɪ/

## Meanings
1. a broad landscaped road, often through a park or scenic area

## Examples
- They drove home along the tree-lined parkway at dusk.

## Synonyms
- avenue
- boulevard
- drive
- highway
- thoroughfare

## Related Forms
- park
- driveway

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: parricus
- Root: weg

## Etymology
A compound of park + way, coined in American English in the late 19th century. Park comes via Old French parc from Medieval Latin parricus 'enclosure'; way is native English, from Old English weg.

## AI Etymology
Parkway is a compound of park + way, coined in American English in the late 19th century. Park comes via Old French parc from Medieval Latin parricus 'enclosure'; way is native English, from Old English weg. Important recorded forms include parricus (Latin) and weg (Old English). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers a broad landscaped road, often through a park or scenic area. The wider family includes related words such as park and driveway.

## Topics
- Places & Geography
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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