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place lpace palce aplce lapce alpce plcae lpcae pclae cplae lcpae clpae pacle apcle pcale cpale acple caple lacpe alcpe lcape clape aclpe calpe plaec lpaec palec aplec lapec alpec pleac lpeac pelac eplac lepac elpac paelc apelc pealc epalc aeplc eaplc laepc alepc leapc elapc aelpc ealpc plcea lpcea pclea cplea lcpea clpea pleca lpeca pelca eplca lepca elpca pcela cpela pecla epcla cepla ecpla lcepa clepa lecpa elcpa celpa eclpa pacel apcel pcael cpael acpel capel paecl apecl peacl epacl aepcl eapcl pceal cpeal pecal epcal cepal ecpal acepl caepl aecpl eacpl ceapl ecapl lacep alcep lcaep claep aclep calep laecp alecp leacp elacp aelcp ealcp lceap cleap lecap elcap celap eclap acelp caelp aeclp eaclp cealp ecalp

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Definitions and meaning of place

place

Alternative forms

• pleace (some English dialects: 18th–19th centuries; Scots: until the 17th century)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: plās, IPA^(key): /pleɪs/, [pl̥eɪs]
• Homophone: plaice
• Rhymes: -eɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle English place, conflation of Old English plæse, plætse, plæċe (“place, an open space, street”) and Old French place (“place, an open space”), both from Latin platea (“plaza, wide street”), from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“to spread”), extended form of *pleh₂- (“flat”). Displaced native Old English stōw, stede, and -ern. Compare also English pleck (“plot of ground”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot, location”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and plaza.

Noun

place (countable and uncountable, plural places)

1. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
   1. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
   2. (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.

   3. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
   4. Any area of the earth: a region.
   5. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.

   6. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.

   7. An area of the body, especially the skin.

   8. (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
   9. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
2. A location or position in space.
3. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
4. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
5. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
6. A state of mind.

7. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
8. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
   1. A role or purpose; a station.
   2. The position of a contestant in a competition.

   3. (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.

   4. The position as a member of a sports team.

9. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
10. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

11. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
    • a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor

      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 […]

12. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

Synonyms

• (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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Pijin: ples
• Tok Pisin: ples

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English placen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

place (third-person singular simple present places, present participle placing, simple past and past participle placed)

1. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
2. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
   1. (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.

3. (transitive, passive voice) To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.

4. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

5. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
6. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).

7. (transitive) To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
8. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.

9. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (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, to achieve a certain position): achieve, make
• (to sing (a note) with the correct pitch): reach
• (to arrange for, make (a bet)):
• (to recruit or match an appropriate person):

Derived terms

• placement
• place on a pedestal
• well-placed

Translations

Anagrams

• Capel, Caple, capel, caple, clape

Czech

Alternative forms

• placu (locative singular)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡sɛ]
• Rhymes: -atsɛ
• Hyphenation: pla‧ce

Noun

place

1. vocative/locative singular of plac

Anagrams

• palce, palec

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plas/
• Homophones: placent, places

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French place, from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa).

Noun

place f (plural places)

1. place, square, plaza, piazza
2. place, space, room
3. place, seat

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
  • → English: laplas
• → Moroccan Arabic: بلاصة (blaṣa)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

place

1. inflection of placer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “place”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• clape, Le Cap

Interlingua

Verb

place

1. present of placer
2. imperative of placer

Latin

Verb

placē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of placeō

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English plætse, plæse, plæċe and Old French place, both from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa).

Alternative forms

• plaace, plache, plas, plasce, plase, plasse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaːs(ə)/, /ˈplas(ə)/

Noun

place (plural places)

1. A place, area or spot; a part of the Earth or universe:
   1. An inhabited place (such as a country, town etc.)
   2. A battlefield; a location of fighting.
   3. An estate or property; a house or building (often with its surrounds).
   4. (rare) A city square, market square, or courtyard.
2. A location or position in or on a larger space (occupied by something or someone):
   1. An area of the body (either of an organ or of the skin)
   2. A location in or passage from a written document.
   3. (mathematics) The place of a digit in a number written with Arabic numerals.
3. A place, station, or position; an appropriate or designated spot:
   1. The usual location or place of something (e.g. an animal's dwelling).
   2. A position in a hierarchy; rank, status, or level.
   3. A favourable or propitious occasion; an opportunity.
4. Extent, space (in two or three dimensions)

Related terms

• placen

Descendants

• English: place (dialectal pleace)
  • Pijin: ples
  • Tok Pisin: ples
• Scots: place, pleece

References

• “plāce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

place

1. Alternative form of playce

Old French

Alternative forms

• plache, plaise, plas

Etymology

From Latin platea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplat͡sə/, (later) /ˈplasə/

Noun

place oblique singular, f (oblique plural places, nominative singular place, nominative plural places)

1. place; location

Descendants

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (place, supplement)
• place on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.t͡sɛ/
• Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
• Syllabification: pla‧ce

Noun

place m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of plac

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡ʃe]

Verb

place

1. inflection of plăcea:
   1. second-person singular imperative
   2. third-person singular present indicative

   Îți place de el? ― Do you like him?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈplaθe/ [ˈpla.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈplase/ [ˈpla.se]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθe
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ase
• Syllabification: pla‧ce

Verb

place

1. inflection of placer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org