parkway

CEFRB1

/ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/

noun

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01
noun
A wide road, often with trees or a landscaped center.
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noun
Extra detail
A divided highway with a landscaped median.

Examples

Parkway Hospital has offices in Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is 755 kilometers long, and runs from North Carolina to Virginia.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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noun

Extra meanings

A scenic freeway.
A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
A tree lawn.

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In context

As they cruised, she remembered the old saw: Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?
This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park
Natchez Trace is a parkway. It is not a freeway nor a throughway nor a speedway

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This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park
1891, Clarence Pullen, “The Parks and Parkways of Chicago”, in John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, editors, Harper's Weekly, volume 35, page 418
Where the boundary roads are the only roads, the whole strip is properly called a parkway; and this name is retained even when the space between the boundary roads is reduced to lowest terms and becomes nothing more than a shaded green ribbon, devoted perhaps to the separate use of the otherwise dangerous electric cars. In other words, parkways, like parks, may be absolutely formal or strikingly picturesque, according to circumstances.
1895, Engineering Magazine, volume 9, page 256
This would give eight trees at each street intersection, which would finally grow into groups, over-arching and emphasizing these intersections, the blocks between these groups to be planted with smaller and more ornamental trees and forming, as it were, a section of a parkway.
1896, F. H. Nutter, “The Landscape Gardener in the Country”, in The Minnesota Horticulturalist, volume 24, number 9, page 358
In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.
1897, “The Advertising Nuisance [Editorial Article]”, in Charles Sprague Sargent, editor, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, page 409
As this scheme cannot be carried out without further legislation, application will have to be made to the General Court for authority to construct a way which will serve the purposes of a parkway and for ordinary travel.
1897, “Annual Report of the Park Department for the Year 1896”, in Documents, Boston (Mass.)

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Origin

noun

From park + way.

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noun

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The scenic blank— runs through the forest and offers beautiful views.

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noun

The scenic blank runs through the forest and offers beautiful views.