parkway
A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of wayA path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
» Stefan never takes that parkway at night.
Meaning
5 senses(dated)A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
Ausfallstraße, Parkweg
(US)A scenic freeway.
a wide scenic road planted with trees
(US)A divided highway with a landscaped median.
As they cruised, she remembered the old saw: Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?
A tree lawn.
(Australia, UK)A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange.
Examples
5 sentencesStefan never takes that parkway at night.
How is it that you drive on parkways, but park on driveways?
The designers of the parkway were careful that road mixed with the environment in a natural way.
Then, you would want to take a left off of Grandview Parkway.
Parkway Hospital has offices in Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From park + way. By surface analysis, a blend of car park + railway. However, it is possiFrom park + way.
By surface analysis, a blend of car park + railway. However, it is possible that the term originally derived from Bristol Parkway railway station built in the early 1970s, which appears to have been named after the M32 motorway, also called Parkway because it runs through Stoke Park.
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