parking

1. 1.

   space in which vehicles can be parked

   “there is plenty of parking behind the store”

   Broaderroom
2. 2.

   the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily

   Broadermaneuver

Other forms of parking

plural

parkings·

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 parking

What does parking mean?

parking means "space in which vehicles can be parked". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parking?

parking has 2 syllables: par-king. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹkɪŋ/.

Is parking a common word?

parking is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.