parka

1. 1.

   a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)

   Synonymswindbreakerwindcheateranorak

   Broaderjacket

   Narrowercagouleski parka

   United Kingdom

Other forms of parka

plural

parkas·

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 parka

What does parka mean?

parka means "a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)".

How many syllables are in parka?

parka has 2 syllables: par-ka. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹkə/.

What is another word for parka?

Close synonyms include windbreaker, windcheater, anorak. 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 parka a common word?

parka is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.