Definitions for Parks

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Parks Parks

Spelling: [pahrks]

IPA: /pɑrks/

Parks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Parks (akprs).

Definitions for Parks

noun

1. Gordon (Alexander Buchanan) 1912–2006, U.S. photojournalist and film director.
2. Rosa (Rosa Louise McCauley) 1913–2006, U.S. civil rights leader.
3. an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
4. an enclosed area or a stadium used for sports:
5. a considerable extent of land forming the grounds of a country house.
6. British. a tract of land reserved for wild animals; game preserve.
7. Western U.S. a broad valley in a mountainous region.
8. a space where vehicles, especially automobiles, may be assembled or stationed.
9. amusement park.
10. theme park.
11. any area set aside for public recreation.
12. Military. the space occupied by the assembled guns, tanks, or vehicles of a military unit. the assemblage so formed. (formerly) the ammunition trains and reserve artillery of an army.
13. Automotive. a setting in an automatic transmission in which the transmission is in neutral and the brake is engaged.

verb (used with object)

1. to place or leave (a vehicle) in a certain place for a period of time.
2. Informal. to put, leave, or settle:
3. to assemble (equipment or supplies) in a military park.
4. to enclose in or as in a park.
5. Informal. to invest (funds) in a stock, bond, etc., considered to be a safe investment with little chance of depreciation, as during a recession or an unstable economic period, or until one finds a more profitable investment.
6. Aerospace. to place (a satellite) in orbit.

verb (used without object)

1. to park a car, bicycle, etc.
2. Informal. to engage in kissing and caressing in a parked car.

Origin of Parks

1225-75; Middle English (noun) Old French parc enclosure Late Latin *parricus West Germanic *parruk (see paddock¹)

Examples for Parks

Paying for all those pensions inevitably means less money for Parks and schools.

The Parks were milling with crowds who came to hear the patriotic speakers.

Judge Parks was at that moment examining some bits of quartz he had picked up.

Judge Parks carried a spy-glass as good as Sile's and it was up instantly.

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and Parks still refused black Cubans entry.

In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia Parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.

With the oncoming of the Parks and play-grounds, all of this, we may hope, will change.

There are Parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.

As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.

The afternoon is far advanced—the Parks and public drives are crowded.