parkway

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
19
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/

Definition of parkway

11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dated)A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
    “This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park”
    “Where the boundary roads are the only roads, the whole strip is properly called a parkway; and this name is retained even when the space between the boundary roads is reduced to lowest terms and becomes nothing more than a shaded green ribbon, devoted perhaps to the separate use of the otherwise dangerous electric cars. In other words, parkways, like parks, may be absolutely formal or strikingly picturesque, according to circumstances.”
    “This would give eight trees at each street intersection, which would finally grow into groups, over-arching and emphasizing these intersections, the blocks between these groups to be planted with smaller and more ornamental trees and forming, as it were, a section of a parkway.”
    “In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.”
    “As this scheme cannot be carried out without further legislation, application will have to be made to the General Court for authority to construct a way which will serve the purposes of a parkway and for ordinary travel.”
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noun

  1. (dated)A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
    “This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park”
    “Where the boundary roads are the only roads, the whole strip is properly called a parkway; and this name is retained even when the space between the boundary roads is reduced to lowest terms and becomes nothing more than a shaded green ribbon, devoted perhaps to the separate use of the otherwise dangerous electric cars. In other words, parkways, like parks, may be absolutely formal or strikingly picturesque, according to circumstances.”
    “This would give eight trees at each street intersection, which would finally grow into groups, over-arching and emphasizing these intersections, the blocks between these groups to be planted with smaller and more ornamental trees and forming, as it were, a section of a parkway.”
    “In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.”
    “As this scheme cannot be carried out without further legislation, application will have to be made to the General Court for authority to construct a way which will serve the purposes of a parkway and for ordinary travel.”
  2. (US)A scenic freeway.
  3. (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?”
  4. A tree lawn.
  5. (Australia, British)A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange.

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Etymology

From park + way.

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