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parkway

US/ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/

parkway noun: a path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.

Noun (1)

parkway (plural parkways)

  1. (dated) A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
    • This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park1891, Clarence Pullen, “The Parks and Parkways of Chicago”, in John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, editors, Harper's Weekly, volume 35, page 418
    • Where the boundary roads are the only roads, the whole strip is properly called a parkway; and this name is retained even when the space between the boundary roads is reduced to lowest terms and becomes nothing more than a shaded green ribbon, devoted perhaps to the separate use of the otherwise...1895, Engineering Magazine, volume 9, page 256
  2. (US) A scenic freeway.
  3. (US) A divided highway with a landscaped median.
    • As they cruised, she remembered the old saw: Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?
  4. (Chicago) A tree lawn.

Noun (2)

parkway (plural parkways)

  1. (Australia, UK) A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange.

Proper noun capitalized: Parkway

Parkway

  1. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
  2. A neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, named after two roads with Parkway in their name.
  3. A village in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
  4. A suburb of Wainuiomata, Wellington region, New Zealand, presumably named after a road in the area.
  5. A hamlet in Ledbury parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO7135).
  6. A northern suburb (housing estate) in Haverhill, West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL6646).

parkway meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

parkway in Hindi

पार्कवे

parkway in Marathi

पार्कवे, उद्यानमार्ग

parkway in Urdu

پارک وے, پارکہ وے

parkway in Bengali

পার্কওয়ে
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parkway in Telugu
పార్క్వే, పార్కువే
parkway in Malayalam
പാർക്ക്വേ
parkway in Kannada
ಪಾರ್ಕ್ವೇ
parkway in Punjabi
ਪਾਰਕਵੇਅ, ਪਾਰਕਵੇ, ਪਾਰਕ-ਵੇਅ
parkway in Gujarati
પાર્કવે
parkway in Odia
ପାର୍କୱେ, ପାର୍କେୱେ
parkway in Nepali
पार्कवे
parkway in Arabic
طريق مشجر

Examples of parkway in a sentence

  • In other words, parkways, like parks, may be absolutely formal or strikingly picturesque, according to circumstances.1895, Engineering Magazine, volume 9, page 256:
  • In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.1897, “The Advertising Nuisance [Editorial Article]”, in Charles Sprague Sargent, editor, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture...
  • Thus a parkway might vary in width from 100 to 1000 feet.1926, “The Cornell Civil Engineer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volumes 35-36, page 198:
  • This highway, which is virtually a parkway and designed primarily for pleasure traffic, begins at Wilmington and extends northward along the Brandywine Creek to its junction with Valley Creek […]1929, Housing, volume 18, page 146:

Forms of parkway

pluralparkways

Plural of parkway: parkways

Origin of parkway

From park + way.

By surface analysis, a blend of car park + railway. However, it is possible that the term originally derived from Bristol Parkway railway station built in the early 1970s, which appears to have been named after the M32 motorway, also called Parkway because it runs through Stoke Park.

Questions about parkway

What does parkway mean?
Parkway means a path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
What is parkway in Hindi?
Parkway in Hindi is पार्कवे. See Parkway meaning in Hindi.
How do you use parkway in a sentence?
In other words, parkways, like parks, may be absolutely formal or strikingly picturesque, according to circumstances.
What part of speech is parkway?
Parkway can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce parkway?
Parkway is pronounced /ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of parkway?
The plural of parkway is parkways.

Words near parkway in the dictionary

  1. Parktown prawn
  2. Parktown prawns
  3. Parkville
  4. parkward
  5. parkwards
  6. parkway
  7. parkways
  8. parkwide
  9. Parkwood
  10. parky
  11. Parkyn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parkway (page history and authors); Parkway (page history and authors); parkway (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parkway (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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