park

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

  1. noun a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property
  2. noun a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
  3. noun a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games)

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.

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Synonyms

parkland

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