parking

From park +‎ -ing.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːkɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹkɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪŋ
• Hyphenation: park‧ing

parking

1. present participle and gerund of park

   Parking a car in a tight spot gave him some satisfaction. (as gerund)

   His parking skills needed improvement. (as participial adjective)

   They will be parking the aircraft in the desert for the next few months. (as progressive)

   Each one of his parkings of securities was a separate count on the indictment. (as gerundial noun)

parking (usually uncountable, plural parkings)

2. The action of the verb to park.

   free parking

   Hyponyms: parallel parking, angle parking, echelon parking, double parking, double-parking, self-parking, valet parking

   Parking in central London can be very difficult.

   • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:

     Glasgow's car-parking problem is one of the worst in the country and the frequency of the new electrified rail service ought to attract a big clientele from the city's close-packed suburbs.

   • 1948, Report of the Charlotte Parking Survey: Downtown Business District:

     Table 6 represents an analysis of the parking usage in the Downtown Business District, in terms of the number of parkings, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., according to Type of Facility used, and the Purposes of the Trips […]

4. Space in which to park a car or other vehicle, such as a parking lot or curbside parking.

   Hyponyms: parking lot, parking garage

   Near-synonyms: car park, carpark

   ample parking;   parking in rear

   It can be difficult to find parking in central London.

   They found his car in a parking thirty miles away; apparently it had been stolen by a joyrider.

• Often used attributively, as an adjective.

From English parking, from park (“to park”), from Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

• Hyphenation: par‧king

parking

1. to park; to bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place

For quotations using this term, see Citations:parking.

• parkinganan

Borrowed from English parking or from French parking.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑr.kɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: par‧king

parking f (plural parkings)

1. (Belgium) car park, parking lot

   Synonyms: parkeerplaats, parkeerterrein

• stadsparking

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

• (France) IPA^(key): /paʁ.kiŋ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio:

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /paʁ.kiɲ/, /paɹkɪnɡ/

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park, parking lot

   Synonyms: stationnement, aire de parcage

• “parking”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

• IPA^(key): /pɑːkiŋ/

parking

1. area where cars or other vehicles are parked; car park

   Synonym: stasionnman

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.kiŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arkiŋk
• Syllabification: par‧king

parking m inan (related adjective parkingowy)

1. car park, parking lot (outdoor area or a building where cars may be parked)

• parking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• parking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French parking, from English parking.

parking n (plural parkinguri)

1. parking lot

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾkin/ [ˈpaɾ.kĩn]
• Rhymes: -aɾkin

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park (UK), parking lot (North America) (an area where cars may be parked), parking garage

   Synonyms: aparcamiento, estacionamiento

• “parking”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024