car park

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

• car parks
  plural

1. a parking lot.

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car park British  

noun

1. Usual US and Canadian term: parking lot. an area or building reserved for parking cars

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• car parks
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of car park

First recorded in 1930–35

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Example Sentences

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car park

Eyewitnesses described hearing a loud noise as the rock spire near a car park collapsed, sending up a huge cloud of dust.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Cars remained in the Lidl car park and the shop's entrance appeared to be damaged.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Kemp also campaigned with residents in July against a new car park that the borough council sought to build next to Harding's Pits.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In one case, a woman was taken to court in a £1,906 claim after taking longer than five minutes to pay at a car park in Derby.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

We got there around lunch-time and left the Rover in a car park beside a mini-golf course full of fluttering flags.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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