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means An area of land, often grassy and planted with trees, set aside within or near a town or city for public recreation and enjoyment.

from A straightforward compound of 'park' and 'land.' 'Park' traces back through Old French 'parc' to Medieval Latin 'parricus,' originally denoting an enclosed tract of ground — often a nobleman's private hunting preserve, fenced off from common use. Over centuries the word drifted from exclusion to invitation: the enclosed grounds of the elite slowly became the open green commons of the public. 'Land' needs no excavation — it's been doing honest work in English since Old English 'land,' meaning ground, soil, territory. Stitch them together and you get a 19th-century-style descriptive compound naming exactly what it is: land given over to park.