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A patch of nature the city agreed not to build on, for now.
means A piece of open land set aside, usually in or near a city, for public use, recreation, or preserved nature.
from From Old French 'parc,' meaning an enclosed area for game animals, itself from Medieval Latin 'parricus,' an enclosure or pen. The root is possibly related to Germanic words for a barrier or fence — a cousin of 'paddock.' The sense has quietly flipped over the centuries: once a park was land fenced in to keep nature trapped for hunting; now it's land fenced off to keep nature protected from everything else.
- royal origin
- Medieval parks were private hunting grounds, not public land
- central park
- Took 20,000 workers and more gunpowder than Gettysburg to build
- verb twist
- Parking a car has nothing to do with parks, originally meant lining up artillery
- global record
- Chugach State Park in Alaska is bigger than some countries