car park
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- noun
- /kɑː pɑːk/
- UK
:
aparcamiento
- Helen's car is parked on the upper level of the airport car park, which is currently quite busy.
Yeah, as they've gone to the car park, he's pressed open the boot.
- Yeah, as they've gone to the car park, he's pressed open the boot.
- So yes, I'm, I don't like being alone in a dark car park, of course.
- And one particular job was in the car park or Regents Park Zoo in London.
- Why can't everyone just go into a Sainsbury's car park and have a fight and sort it out?
- Seven guns on the floor of the car park.
- So we might have been meeting some at the car park.
- And my transporter would wait in the car park.
- Our offices were in an NCP car park.
- The cars in the car park of my school, the teachers cars were set on fire.
- So the bad guys car drives into the car park.
Examples
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A comparison of the parking costs of different airport car parks can help you select the most affordable option.
Blog text (27) -
On their way back to the car park, they passed Perth Theatre.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's been sitting in a car park for at least six months.
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Can I give you a hand back to the car park?
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I know, but they turned that into a car park.
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Then she went to check the other car park in the next field.
Fiction book (1996) -
Come on, we're in a car park, miles from anywhere.
Fiction book (1992) -
Outside, we walk through the car park directly into the castle grounds.
Blog text (31) -
The shadows were lengthening by the time they pulled out of the car park.
Fiction book (1991) -
The mother tried to stop me in the car park this morning.
Synonyms
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A place where cars or other vehicles can be left
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An area or building where people leave cars for a short time
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A place to leave a car while you go somewhere
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A marked place for one car in a lot, garage, or on a street
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A marked place to leave a car for a short time
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A place where people leave cars or other vehicles
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An area for leaving cars or other vehicles
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area or building where people can leave their cars' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'car' (motor vehicle) with 'park' (a place to leave vehicles); a learner who knows both constituents can infer the compound meaning. This Noun+Noun place-compounding is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English composition patterns, so it should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Car park comes from the words car and park. Long ago 'park' meant a place to leave things, so when cars came people used park for places to leave cars, and car park means 'a place to leave your car'.