parking lot

American  

noun

1. an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.

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parking lot British  

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): car park.  an area or building reserved for parking cars

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Etymology

Origin of parking lot

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25

Example Sentences

It showed the white SUV parking in the parking lot and a man exiting, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Twelve kilometers from the hotel zone, crossing empty streets with minimal traffic, residents in the well-off neighborhood of Fluvial Vallarta wandered through the parking lot of a Costco wholesaler.

From Barron's

Raiding Home Depot parking lots and stopping people on the street isn’t persuasive to this end.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tehran’s municipality has identified metro stations, parking lots and other locations that could serve as bomb shelters, Ali Nasiri, a crisis management official, told state media in late January.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Remember the Times” stretches back to Riley’s childhood in Harlem, where the playground of his elementary school abutted the parking lot behind New York’s venerable Apollo Theater.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• garage
• park