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parkways

parkways is the plural of parkway.

Meaning of parkway

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
  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.

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Questions about parkways

What is parkways the plural of?
Parkways is the plural of parkway.

Words near parkways in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parkways (page history and authors); parkway (page history and authors). 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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