parkland means A number of places in Canada.; A neighborhood of Calgary, Alberta. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From park + land, see parkland.
name
- A number of places in Canada.; A neighborhood of Calgary, Alberta.
- A number of places in Canada.; A region of Manitoba.
- A number of places in the United States.; A city in Broward County, Florida.“The massacre that ripped apart 17 families in Parkland, Florida, five years ago on Valentine’s Day ignited a wave of student-led protests and bipartisan legislation to combat the plague of school shootings devastating the country. […] As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.”
- A number of places in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Illinois.
- A number of places in the United States.; A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- A number of places in the United States.; A neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan.
noun
- Land suitable for use as a park.
- A landscape characterized by a mixture of treed groves and open grasslands, akin to a Eurasian forest steppe.