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  1. noun An area of land set aside for public use, as:
  2. noun A piece of land with few or no buildings within or adjoining a town, maintained for recreational and ornamental purposes.
  3. noun A landscaped city square.
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  • Another pleasant feature of the park was the quantity of singing birds; there were larks, blackcaps, white-throats, and blackbirds, no doubt attracted by the security and peace they enjoyed all the year round—no shooting being allowed either in the park or in the Bois de Boulogne. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • This park is also located on the banks of the Li River and is just a bit south of Fubo Hill, within easy walking distance. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • The focal point of the park is a sculpted, 30-foot tower by Denver artist Ed Dwight, who was also America's first African-American astronaut.
  • For the next three hours, the park will be the place for live entertainment, pony rides, crafts, a parade and an Easter egg hunt. —  Augusta Free Press
  • Within the park is the ruins of an old, old hydroelectric dam called Bloede's Dam, after the guy that invented it. —  Blogtimore, Hon
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  1. Middle English, game preserve, enclosed tract of land, from Old French parc, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English park, from Old French parc, French parc = Provencal parc = Spanish Portuguese parque = Italian parco (Middle Latin parcus, parricus); cf. Welsh park, parwg = Irish Gaelic pairc = Breton park; also Teutonic, English parrock, also paddock (see paddock), from Middle English parrok, from Anglo-Saxon pearroc = Dutch perk, a park, = Middle Low German perk = Old High German pfarrich, pferrich, Middle High German pferrich, German pferch, an inclosure, sheep-fold (G. Swedish Danish park, a pond, a park, from French parc). It is uncertain whether the word is orig. Celtic or Teutonic; it is prob. Teutonic, connected with par, bar, perhaps with orig. initial s-, and so ult. connected with spar, a bar, beam, etc.
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