park

1. 1.

   place temporarily

   “park the car in the yard”

   “park the children with the in-laws”

   “park your bag in this locker”

   Broaderput
2. 2.

   maneuver a vehicle into a parking space

   “Park the car in front of the library”

   “Can you park right here?”

   Broadersteer

   Narrowerangle-parkparallel-parkdouble-park

   driving

Other forms of park

plural

parks·

past tense

parked·

present participle

parking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about park

What does park mean?

park means "a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in park?

park has 1 syllable: park. In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹk/.

What is another word for park?

Close synonyms include parkland, commons, common, green, ballpark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is park a common word?

park is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with park?

1 word rhymes with park. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.