parks

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of park.

   The downtown parks fill with families every weekend.

   Several national parks reopened after the wildfire season.

   Note

   A regular plural that covers more kinds of ground than the city lawn. The word also names a hunting enclosure held by royal grant, a wide flat-bottomed valley among American mountains, a yard for vehicles or stores, and a basin where oysters are grown. The same spelling serves as the verb's present form. A determiner or a subject tells them apart: the parks, but she parks.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of park.

   The delivery driver parks outside the building each morning.

   Whenever it rains, she parks under the overpass.

   Note

   Here the -s marks agreement with he, she, it or a singular noun, and every other present-tense subject takes bare park. The verb usually has an object: someone parks a car, or informally parks a question until later. In American slang it can stand alone, for a couple who drive somewhere quiet and stay in the car.

Showing meanings only. Show all 2