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parks

parks is the plural of park.

parks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of park.

Meaning of park

Noun

park (plural parks)

  1. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
    • She went to the park for a jog with him.
  2. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
    • Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York
    Synonyms:
    courtyard, garden, plaza
  3. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
  4. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
    • The mountain region thus limited consists of extensive and often level-floored valleys, sometimes many miles broad, and elevated 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea, called "parks" in local topography, which are interposed between innumerable rocky mountain ridges ....1878, The San Francisco Western Lancet. a Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, volume 7, number 3
  5. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.
    • a wagon park; an artillery park
  6. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Parks

Parks

  1. A surname.
    • In the discussions we had sitting around church basements, I learned that, despite the obvious differences in our environments, these kids were more like me than I ever could have imagined. They also knew more about what was happening in the civil rights movement in the South. I had only vaguely...2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “University of Life”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 22–23
    • So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Parks

the Parks

  1. (abbreviation, ellipsis, Oxford City) Ellipsis of Oxford University Parks.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Parks

Parks

  1. (plural) plural of Park

Origin of parks

Compare Parkes.

Phrases with parks

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Questions about parks

What does parks mean?
Parks means a surname.
What is parks the plural of?
Parks is the plural of park.
What part of speech is parks?
Parks is a proper noun.

Words near parks in the dictionary

  1. parkrun
  2. parkrunner
  3. parkrunners
  4. parkrunning
  5. parkruns
  6. parks
  7. Parks College
  8. parks in
  9. parks that thought
  10. parks the beef bus in tuna town
  11. parks the bus

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