parkway

[pahrk-wey]

noun

1. a broad thoroughfare with a dividing strip or side strips planted with grass, trees, etc.

2. Chiefly New York State and Western New England.,  a strip of grass, sometimes planted with trees or shrubs, between a sidewalk and curb.

parkway

/ ˈpɑːkˌweɪ /

noun

1. (in the US and Canada) a wide road planted with trees, turf, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of parkway¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; park + way ¹

Example Sentences

They gather there every last Sunday of the month for Club Gay Gardens, a garden club catering to queer Angelenos, to maintain the parkway strip, learn about native gardening and connect with other plant lovers.

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In exchange, the city’s parkway program provided free native plants suitable for Long Beach to replant the area and mulch to help retain rainwater.

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The goal was to suppress the weeds on the parkway so they didn’t add more seeds to the habitat she was trying to create on the other side of the sidewalk.

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After sunrise, the city went to work clearing an encampment along the parkway between the 110 Freeway and the flood channel that’s existed there since the beginning of the pandemic.

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But builders have been ordered to chop down trees, tear out grass parkways, move streetlights and power poles, and even reduce sidewalk space — and for what?

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