PARKS

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• PARKS (noun)
  The noun PARKS has 1 sense:

1. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

  Familiarity information: PARKS used as a noun is very rare.

• PARKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Parks; Rosa Parks

Instance hypernyms:

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)

 Context examples 

He walked much, out in the hills, and loafed long hours in the quiet parks.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Urban parks help improve the air quality, filtering out toxic pollutants that kill scores of people every year.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

My only comfort, she said to Meg, with tears in her eyes, is that Mother doesn't take tucks in my dresses whenever I'm naughty, as Maria Parks's mother does.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"A few of these caves are in national parks, but there's a lot of poaching everywhere."

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

The study was performed in two national parks in California, United States.

(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)

Finding by degrees, however, that I was sober, and (I hope) that I was a modest young gentleman, Mrs. Waterbrook softened towards me considerably, and inquired, firstly, if I went much into the parks, and secondly, if I went much into society.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was all heavenly, but I was glad to see the Irish coast, and found it very lovely, so green and sunny, with brown cabins here and there, ruins on some of the hills, and gentlemen's countryseats in the valleys, with deer feeding in the parks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I really feel like a dissipated London fine lady, writing here so late, with my room full of pretty things, and my head a jumble of parks, theaters, new gowns, and gallant creatures who say Ah! and twirl their blond mustaches with the true English lordliness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)