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Park Ave.

Park Ave.

3.5
A famous street in New York that has large expensive apartments
  • proper noun
translation icon : Park Ave.
  • I say "worked," but the fact was that frequently, after we returned from our dinner among the cabdrivers at the Belmore Cafeteria on Park Avenue South, Stan and I had nothing to do.
  • Park Ave., New York, NY
  • Park Ave., New York
  • 2 Park Ave.

Examples

  • Reading: "PARK AVE."

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The Society's principal offices are located at Three Park Avenue, New York, N.Y., under a lease expiring in 2013.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The second terror-attack plane hit just as Jeff Pash walked into the National Football League's Park Avenue offices, a few miles north of the World Trade Center.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Walking down Park Ave., one can see some of the most expensive real estate in New York City.

  • Many celebrities reside on Park Ave., attracted by its prestige.

  • The exclusive events on Park Ave. draw the city's elite and affluent residents.

Synonyms

Fifth Avenue
vsPark Ave.
41 3.3

A famous street in Manhattan known for expensive shops and landmarks

is mainly a luxury residential street rather than a shopping area
Park Avenue
vsPark Ave.
17 3.4

A famous rich street in New York City with many expensive homes

means the same but appears as an abbreviated written form

Surface Forms

Park Ave. main
Park Avenue main

Morphology

Park + Ave.

The meaning is a culture-specific metonymy referring to the social world of a particular New York street (Park Avenue) rather than a compositional sense derivable from 'park' and 'ave(ue)'. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would not predict the association with wealth/status without prior world‑knowledge or exposure to the place-name usage, so it is not transparently compositional.

Etymology

Park Ave. comes from a long, wide road that once had a green park-like center and grand buildings along the avenue. That's why the name now refers to 'a fashionable and prestigious street' in New York.