parkway

See also: Parkway

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Etymology 1

From park +‎ way.

Noun

parkway (plural parkways)

1. (dated) A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
   • 1891, Clarence Pullen, “The Parks and Parkways of Chicago”, in John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, editors, Harper's Weekly, volume 35, page 418:

     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

   • 1895, Engineering Magazine, volume 9, page 256:

     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.

   • 1896, F. H. Nutter, “The Landscape Gardener in the Country”, in The Minnesota Horticulturalist, volume 24, number 9, page 358:

     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.

   • 1897, “The Advertising Nuisance [Editorial Article]”, in Charles Sprague Sargent, editor, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, page 409:

     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.

   • 1897, “Annual Report of the Park Department for the Year 1896”, in Documents, Boston (Mass.):

     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.

   • 1919, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, page 1806:

     A parkway, so far as it can be discriminated from a boulevard, includes more breadth of turf or planted ground and includes, usually, narrow passages of natural scenery of varying width, giving it a somewhat park-like character

   • 1926, “The Cornell Civil Engineer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volumes 35-36, page 198:

     Thus a parkway might vary in width from 100 to 1000 feet. An average width of 300 feet should provide a pleasing setting for the roadway in addition to a bridle path and hiking trail.

   • 1929, Housing, volume 18, page 146:

     This highway, which is virtually a parkway and designed primarily for pleasure traffic, begins at Wilmington and extends northward along the Brandywine Creek to its junction with Valley Creek […]

   • 1938, Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, page 2691:

     Mr. Moses: Of course, the word "parkways" would have to be defined, as it has been to some extent by the courts, but what we intended by scenic highway is a highway like Storm King. That is not a parkway, but is a scenic highway […]

   • 1943, Master Recreation Plan, Marin County, California, number 13, page 9:

     A parkway is a combined park and road. Strictly speaking, it is a road through a park and is indistinguishable from the park areas which it traverses.

   • 1959, Mississippi Highways, volumes 28-29, page 30:

     Natchez Trace is a parkway. It is not a freeway nor a throughway nor a speedway

2. (US) A scenic freeway.
3. (US) A divided highway with a landscaped median.
4. (Chicago) A tree lawn.

Descendants

• → Japanese: パークウェイ (pākuwei)

Translations

A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way

• Arabic: طريق مشجر f
• Azerbaijani: park yolu f
• Chinese: 公园大道 f
• Dutch: parkweg f
• Estonian: pargitee f
• French: promenade (fr) f
• German: Ausfallstraße (de) f, Parkweg (de) f
• Italian: strada panoramica f
• Japanese: 公園道路 f, こうえんどうろ f
• Korean: 공원 도로 f (gong'won doro)
• Portuguese: via pública f
• Romanian: promenadă (ro) f
• Spanish: ruta verde f

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, a blend of car park +‎ railway. However, it is possible that the term originally derived from Bristol Parkway railway station built in the early 1970s, which appears to have been named after the M32 motorway, also called Parkway because it runs through Stoke Park. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

parkway (plural parkways)

1. (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange.

Usage notes

• In Britain at least, the names of parkway stations are capitalised.

References

• parkway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “parkway”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “parkway”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.