car park

noun

Chiefly British.

1. a parking lot.

car park

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of car park¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Ms Wandelt was arrested in February after arriving at Bristol Airport, with Mrs Spragg also detained in a nearby car park.

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After a campaign, a night-time barrier is to be installed at an Elmers End supermarket car park that sometimes becomes a race track by night.

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The 37-year-old father of two was killed with an axe in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London, in 1987.

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I leave the museum and walk past a coach car park in the general direction of the windmills.

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My Story - From Swansea to Stacey And Everything In Between in a disused pub car park, outside a cricket club in the middle of the night and in a car outside her house.

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Related Words

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