parks

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proper noun

A surname.

Very commonScrabble 11

Meanings

parks1

noun
  1. pluralplural of park
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of park

Parks2

proper noun
  1. A surname.

    So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

    2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN
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    In the discussions we had sitting around church basements, I learned that, despite the obvious differences in our environments, these kids were more like me than I ever could have imagined. They also knew more about what was happening in the civil rights movement in the South. I had only vaguely heard of Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, but these discussions sparked my interest.

    2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “University of Life”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 22–23

Parks3

proper nounthe Parks
  1. abbreviationellipsisOxford CityEllipsis of Oxford University Parks.

Parks4

proper noun
  1. pluralplural of Park

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APA

parks. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parks

MLA

“parks.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parks. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parks,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parks.

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