place

place - English

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: plās, IPA: /pleɪs/, [pl̥eɪs]
  • Homophone: plaice

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.
      • They live at Westminster Place.
    3. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
    4. Any area of the earth: a region.
      • He is going back to his native place on vacation.
    5. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
      • We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
    6. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
      • Do you want to come over to my place later?
    7. An area of the body, especially the skin.
      • Which place hurts the most?
    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.
    • I'm in a strange place at the moment.
  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.
      • It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
    2. The position of a contestant in a competition.
      • We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
    3. (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
    4. The position as a member of a sports team.
      • He lost his place in the national team.
  9. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
  10. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
    • three decimal places;  the hundreds place
  11. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
    • That's what I said in the first place!
  12. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

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Translations

  • Finnish: kohta (fi)
  • Middle English: stede, place
  • Ukrainian: ви́тяг m (výtjah)
  • Ukrainian: січ (uk) f (sič)
  • Finnish: sija (fi); ensiksi (fi), toiseksi (fi) etc. (in the first, second, etc. place)
  • Ukrainian: по-... (po-...) (по-перше - in the first place; по-друге - in the second place; etc.)

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
    • He placed the glass on the table.
  2. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
    • The Cowboys placed third in the league.
    1. (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.
  3. (transitive, passive) To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
    • Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.
  4. (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.
  5. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
  6. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
    • I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.
  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.
    • They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
  9. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

Conjugation

infinitive (to) place
present tense past tense
1st-person singular place placed
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular places
plural place
subjunctive place placed
imperative place
participles placing placed

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

Translations


Anagrams

place - Czech

Alternative forms

  • placu (locative singular)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈplat͡sɛ]
  • Hyphenation: pla‧ce

Noun

place

  1. vocative/locative singular of plac

Anagrams

place - French

Pronunciation

Noun

place f (plural places)

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

Derived terms

Descendants


Verb

place

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

Anagrams

place - Interlingua

Verb

place

  1. present of placer
  2. imperative of placer

place - Latin

Verb

placē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of placeō

place - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /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)

Descendants


Noun

place

  1. Alternative form of playce

place - Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

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

  1. place; location

Descendants

place - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpla.t͡sɛ/
  • Syllabification: pla‧ce

Noun

place m inan

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of plac

place - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈplat͡ʃe]

Verb

place

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

place - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (Spain) /ˈplaθe/ [ˈpla.θe]
  • IPA: (Latin America) /ˈplase/ [ˈpla.se]
  • Syllabification: pla‧ce

Verb

place

  1. inflection of placer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
Meaning and Definition of place
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