Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A parking lot.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, Australia, New Zealand An outdoor area or a multi-storey building where cars may be parked.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lot where cars are parked
Examples
“There were no witnesses, other than the ones who could verify that he and Shelley got blitzed on Chateau Musar before staggering off to bed, and that the Lexus they arrived in hadn't moved from the car park from check-in until check-out.”
“Leaving Aynsford early I drove back to London on Thursday morning and left the car, as I normally did, in a large public underground car park near Pont Square.”
“In the car park they pulled up side by side next to Mallard's old Rover.”
“She had been wandering through the complex, following the signs from the underground car park to the Sky Tower lifts, when she had spotted the frivolous, tall strappy pair she was now wearing in the glitzy boutique window … shoes that would have made Ryan look like a tiny insignificant speck beside her.”
“I sat in Ivan's car in a shopping centre's car park and tried to reach Margaret Morden by phone.”
“In a car park near Killiecrankie, just off the A9.”
“At Slepe Rock itself a mushroom sort of hotel has been built with a pull-in for motor coaches and a small car park on the opposite side of the road.”
“The archaeologist Tim Darvill has woven a kind of creation myth in which the big tree would have given the place significance, and might have been the first landmark at the place we now call Stonehenge or, at least, its car park at a time when hunter-gatherers wandered the land.”
“In a separate story, Tayside police divers were searching an area of Loch Faskally in response to new developments in the hunt for the killer of Tom Heron, who had been found decapitated in a car park near Killiecrankie ten days ago.”
“Magda and Zole were ushered away, but I walked after them and beckoned a taxi forward from the car park line.”
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