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PLAYGROUND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("playground" is a kind of...):
curtilage; grounds; yard (the enclosed land around a house or other building)
Meronyms (parts of "playground"):
dandle board; seesaw; teeter; teeter-totter; teeterboard; teetertotter; tilting board (a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end)
playground slide; slide; sliding board (plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide)
swing (mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An area where many people go for recreation
Synonyms:
playground; resort area; vacation spot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("playground" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Meronyms (parts of "playground"):
resort hotel; spa (a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area)
holiday resort; resort; resort hotel (a hotel located in a resort area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playground"):
spa; watering hole; watering place (a health resort near a spring or at the seaside)
borscht belt; borscht circuit; borsht belt; borsht circuit ((informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests)
Instance hyponyms:
Waikiki (a well-known beach and resort area on Oahu Island to the southeast of Honolulu)
Context examples:
The playground was a bare gravelled yard, open to all the back of the house and the offices; and I knew that the servants read it, and the butcher read it, and the baker read it; that everybody, in a word, who came backwards and forwards to the house, of a morning when I was ordered to walk there, read that I was to be taken care of, for I bit, I recollect that I positively began to have a dread of myself, as a kind of wild boy who did bite.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He inquired, under a shed in the playground, into the particulars of my punishment, and was pleased to express his opinion that it was a jolly shame; for which I became bound to him ever afterwards.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
See, how our house and church are lessening in the distance; how the grave beneath the tree is blotted out by intervening objects; how the spire points upwards from my old playground no more, and the sky is empty!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Creakle's part of the house was a good deal more comfortable than ours, and he had a snug bit of garden that looked pleasant after the dusty playground, which was such a desert in miniature, that I thought no one but a camel, or a dromedary, could have felt at home in it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
