How do you use the word "park" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "park": Sir, you are not allowed to park your car here. I'm taking a walk in a park.

Park Meaning

/pɑɹk/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

nounAn area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation., A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.

Sentence Examples

Sir, you are not allowed to park your car here.

I'm taking a walk in a park.

You can park on either side of the street.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

green common

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She had to ____ her car in the small garage.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The children spent the afternoon playing in the ____ while their parents sat on the benches nearby.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

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