water park
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- noun
- /ˈwɔːtər pɑrk/
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parque acuático
- We had a fantastic time sliding down the water slides at the water park.
- a recreational water park
This smells like summers and vacationing at hotels with pools and water parks.
- This smells like summers and vacationing at hotels with pools and water parks.
- And as we're pulling up to the water park, my oldest, Gus, sees the torpedo slide thing straight down one.
- Ha, Yeah, which was a sort of water park.
- We're going to do a live episode in Dallas, TX, baby, at the San Antonio water park.
- And we go to the water park and it wasn't, I mean, it wasn't much of A place.
- So like, I don't want to be lumped in with the water parks because by the way, I have kids and I have to go to water parks and they're brutal.
Examples
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I was surprised at how big the water park is.
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Maybe you are in the mood to go to a water park and splash around.
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It's like a water park with no line.
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- Can we go to the water park?
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I went to three different places in the water park to find that.
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Tomorrow we go to the water park.
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There was a little boy at the water park last week, about 2 or 3 years old.
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Recently, I spent the day at a water park where I observed many thousands of people attired for swimming.
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And it gave us access to the Legoland Water Park and Legoland itself and other parks as well.
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The Lotte Confectionery company is so big that it has its own theme park and water park, and you can visit Lotte World in South Korea.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an amusement park with water-based attractions' is directly and transparently built from 'water' (liquid) + 'park' (recreational area): the first noun simply specifies the type of park, following a common noun–noun compounding pattern. Similar formations exist in many languages (e.g., parque acuático, parc aquatique), so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun water park joins water and park; imagine a park where, instead of grass and trees, you find pools, slides and places to splash in water. That's why water park means 'an amusement park with pools and water rides'.