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MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park proper noun: a neighbourhood of Westlake, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Proper noun

MacArthur Park

  1. A neighbourhood of Westlake, Los Angeles, California, United States.
    • Below is the last photo I took of my old apartment in MacArthur Park, a neighborhood whose name has been synonymous with danger for decades. From Chelsea Handler’s questionable inquiry about bodies in the park’s lake, made whilst buying pupusas from a street vendor on her Netflix special, to the...2017 January 26, Marissa Clifford, “Why doesn’t MacArthur Park gentrify?”, in Curbed, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2017

Origin of MacArthur Park

Named after MacArthur Park, a park in the Westlake District of Central Los Angeles, itself named after American general Douglas MacArthur.

Questions about MacArthur Park

What does MacArthur Park mean?
MacArthur Park means a neighbourhood of Westlake, Los Angeles, California, United States.
What part of speech is MacArthur Park?
MacArthur Park is a proper noun.

Words near MacArthur Park in the dictionary

  1. macaroon
  2. macaroonlike
  3. macaroons
  4. macarpine
  5. Macarthur
  6. MacArthur Park
  7. MacArthurs
  8. Macartney
  9. Macartneys
  10. Macary
  11. macas

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