parkland

noun

park·​land ˈpärk-ˌland 

: land with clumps of trees and shrubs in cultivated condition used as or suitable for use as a park

Examples of parkland in a Sentence

an area of beautiful parkland

Recent Examples on the Web

The state’s highest court, the SJC, heard arguments in a community lawsuit filed by the Defenders and Emerald Necklace Conservancy earlier this month, and is weighing its claim that the project’s professional soccer use would illegally privatize public parkland. —Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026

The San Joaquin River Parkway in Fresno and Madera counties would join various properties into an 874-acre state park directly upriver from the city of Fresno, with parkland on both sides of the river. —Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026

But transferring state parks could result in unique parklands being altered or closed to the broader public. —Dan Walters, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026

Its 17 acres of gardens meld English parklands with Jurassic groves of ferns and native pines. —Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1727, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for parkland

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand