Pronunciation Noun
place (plural places)
- (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, scene iv
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, scene iv
- A group of houses.
- They live at Westminster Place.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
- He is going back to his native place on vacation.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.
- Do you want to come over to my place later?
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- An area of the skin.
- (euphemism slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- 1901, John Stephen Farmer & al., Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, Vol. V, page 220:
- Place,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease.
- 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, Ch. ii, page 59:
- ‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...
‘She means the little girls room.’
- ‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...
- 1901, John Stephen Farmer & al., Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, Vol. V, page 220:
- (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- A location or position in space.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene v]:
- In that same place thou hast appointed me,
To-morrow truly will I meete with thee.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
- (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
- A frame of mind.
- I'm in a strange place at the moment.
- (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
- (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene v]:
- I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
- (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
- to win a bet on a horse for place
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- He lost his place in the national team.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- three decimal places; the hundreds place
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- That's what I said in the first place!
- In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion […]
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- Bible, Gospel of John viii. 37
- My word hath no place in you.
- Bible, Gospel of John viii. 37
- (market square) courtyard, piazza, plaza, square
- (somewhere to sit) seat
- (outhouse or lavatory) See Thesaurus:bathroom
- (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot
- (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, mood
- French: lieu, endroit, place
- German: Platz, Ort, Stelle, Position
- Italian: luogo, posto, posizione
- Portuguese: lugar, local, posição
- Russian: ме́сто
- Spanish: lugar, sitio
- Portuguese: vila
- German: Platz, Sitzplatz, Sitz
- Italian: posto
- Portuguese: lugar, assento
- Russian: ме́сто
- Spanish: asiento
- Portuguese: mentalidade
place (places, present participle placing; past and past participle placed)
- Additional archaic forms include the second-person singular past tense placedst.
- (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- He placed the glass on the table.
- (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
- The Cowboys placed third in the league.
- (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.
- (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.
- (transitive, in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.
- (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.
- (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
- They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
- (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
- (to earn a given spot)
- (to put in a specific location) deposit, lay, lay down, put down
- (to remember where and when something or someone was previously encountered)
- (passive) achieve, make
- (to sing (a note) with the correct pitch) reach
- (to arrange for, make (a bet))
- (to recruit or match an appropriate person)
- French: mettre, poser, placer
- German: stellen, platzieren, einordnen
- Italian: collocare, mettere, posare
- Portuguese: colocar, pôr
- Russian: класть
- Spanish: colocar, poner, situar
- French: se placer, arriver
- Portuguese: classificar-se, chegar, obter
- Spanish: clasificarse, colocarse
- Portuguese: lembrar-se
- Spanish: situar
- Portuguese: classificar-se, chegar, obter
- Spanish: clasificarse, colocarse
Place
Proper noun
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