CAR PARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does car park mean? 

• CAR PARK (noun)
  The noun CAR PARK has 1 sense:

1. a lot where cars are parked

  Familiarity information: CAR PARK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAR PARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lot where cars are parked

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

car park; park; parking area; parking lot

Hypernyms ("car park" is a kind of...):

lot (a parcel of land having fixed boundaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "car park"):

used-car lot (a parking lot where a dealer in used-cars displays cars for sale)

 Context examples 

We need to retrieve these memories to help us carry out our daily tasks, whether remembering where we left the car in the supermarket car park or recalling the name of someone we meet in the street.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)