Dictionary Definition
place
Noun
1 a point located with respect to surface
features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic" [syn:
topographic
point, spot]
2 any area set aside for a particular purpose;
"who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the
property across from the White House" [syn: property]
3 an abstract mental location; "he has a special
place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system
with no place for the less prominent groups"
4 a general vicinity; "He comes from a place near
Chicago"
5 the function or position properly or
customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my
stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, lieu]
6 a particular situation; "If you were in my
place what would you do?" [syn: shoes]
7 where you live at a particular time; "deliver
the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your
place or mine?" [syn: home]
8 a job in an organization; "he occupied a post
in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, situation]
9 the particular portion of space occupied by a
physical object; "he put the lamp back in its place" [syn: position]
10 proper or designated social situation; "he
overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his
station"; "married above her station" [syn: station]
11 a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater
or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he
sat in someone else's place" [syn: seat]
12 the passage that is being read; "he lost his
place on the page"
13 proper or appropriate position or location; "a
woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"
14 a public square with room for pedestrians;
"they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place" [syn: plaza, piazza]
15 an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the
second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" [syn: position]
16 a blank area; "write your name in the space
provided" [syn: space,
blank
space]
Verb
1 put into a certain place or abstract location;
"Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the
scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
[syn: put, set, pose, position, lay]
2 place somebody in a particular situation or
location; "he was placed on probation"
3 assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank
these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food
guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade]
4 assign a location to; "The company located some
of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, site]
5 to arrange for; "place a phone call", "place a
bet"
6 take a place in a competition; often followed
by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon" [syn: come in, come out]
7 intend (something) to move towards a certain
goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism
directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not
towards yourself" [syn: target, aim, direct, point]
8 recognize as being; establish the identity of
someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted'
poster" [syn: identify]
9 assign to (a job or a home)
12 identify the location or place of; "We
localized the source of the infection" [syn: localize, localise]
15 finish second or better in a horse or dog
race; "he bet $2 on number six to place"
16 sing a note with the correct pitch
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From plæce, from place, from lang=la, from sc=Grek, from sc=Grek, from *|platPronunciation
- , /pleɪs/, /pleIs/
- Rhymes: -eɪs
Homophones
Noun
- An open space, courtyard, market square.
- A group of houses.
- They live in Westminster Place.
- A location or position.
- A region of a land.
- He is going back to his native place on vacation.
- Somewhere for a person to sit.
- We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
- A frame of mind.
- I'm in a strange place at the moment.
- A house or home.
- Do you want to come over to my place later?
- A role or purpose; a station.
- It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain
quantity.
- three decimal places
- the hundreds place
- three decimal places
Synonyms
- courtyard, piazza, plaza, square
- sense location location, position, situation, spot
- sense somewhere to sit seat
- sense frame of mind frame of mind, mindset, mood
Derived terms
Translations
open space, courtyard, market square
- Finnish: aukio
- French: place
- German: Platz
- Greek: πλατεία
- Italian: piazza
- Japanese: 広場, 場; qualifier market square 市場
- Korean: 곳, 장소
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: شوێن
- Polish: plac
- Portuguese: lugar, local
- Romanian: pătrat, piaţă
- Romansch: plaz , plazza
- Russian: площадь (plóščad’)
- Slovene: trg
- Spanish: plaza
- Swedish: gård, plats, torg
- Telugu: స్థలము (sthalamu)
group of houses
- Japanese: 団地
- Swedish: gård
location, position
- Albanian: vend
- Arabic: (makān)
- Catalan: lloc
- Chinese: 地方 (dìfang)
- Croatian: mjesto
- Czech: místo
- Dutch: plaats
- Finnish: paikka
- French: lieu
- German: Platz, Ort, Stelle, Position
- Hebrew:
- Hindi: जगह (jagah)
- Hungarian: hely
- Irish: áit
- Italian: luogo, posto, posizione
- Japanese: 場所, 位置, 所; qualifier space 空間; qualifier room 余地
- Korean: 장소
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: جێگه, شوێن
- Latin: locus
- Mongolian: газар (gazar)
- Old English: log
- Portuguese: lugar, local, posição
- Romanian: loc
- Romansch: lieu
- Russian: место
- Scottish Gaelic: àite
- Slovene: kraj, mesto
- Spanish: lugar, sitio
- Swedish: plats , placering , post , säte , ställe
- Telugu: స్థానము (sthaanamu)
- Urdu: (jagah)
region of a land
- Japanese: 地方
somewhere to sit
frame of mind
- Finnish: paikka
- Japanese: 感覚
informal: house or home
- Hebrew:
- Japanese: 家, 家
a role or purpose, a station
- Hebrew:
- Japanese: qualifier role 役目, 役割; qualifier station 居場所, 境遇, 環境; qualifier rank of a job station 立場, 位置, 身分, 地位, 役職; qualifier opportunity of job station 職, 仕事
numeric: the column counting a certain quantity
- Japanese: 桁
somewhere to stand
somewhere to lay down
somewhere to sleep
Verb
- To earn a given spot in a competition.
- To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- 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.
- To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- To recruit or
match an appropriate
person for a job.
- They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
Synonyms
- sense to earn a given spot
- sense to put in a specific location deposit, lay, lay down, put down
- achieve, make
- reach
Derived terms
Translations
to earn a given spot in a competition
- French: se placer, arriver
- Hebrew: (literally: to reach)
- Japanese: 入賞する
- Swedish: placera sig
to put in a specific location
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 放 (fàng)
- Dutch: plaatsen
- Finnish: panna, laittaa, asettaa, sijoittaa
- French: mettre, poser, placer
- German: stellen, plazieren (or platzieren), einordnen
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: tenni, helyezni
- Italian: collocare, mettere, posare
- Japanese: 配置する, 置く, 入れる, 付ける, 収める, 定める, 割り当てる
- Korean: 두다
- Kurdish:
- Old English: logian
- Portuguese: colocar
- Russian: класть (klast’), ставить (stávit’)
- Spanish: colocar, poner
- Swedish: lägga, placera, ställa, sätta
to remember where and when something or someone
was previously encountered
passive: to achieve (a certain position)
to sing (a note) with the correct pitch
to arrange for, make (a bet)
- Finnish: asettua
- French: faire
- Japanese: 賭ける
to recruit or match an appropriate person for a
job
French
Pronunciation
- lang=fr|/plas/
Noun
fr-noun fVerb form
- first-, third-person singular indicative present of placer.
- first-, third-person singular sunjunctive present of placer.
- second-person singular imperative of placer.
Polish
Pronunciation
- lang=pl|/ˈplaʦɛ/
Noun
place- Plural of plac
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
placeSpanish
Verb
es-verb-form placer
- The second-person singular of placer in the imperative.
Extensive Definition
Place may refer to:
- Place (mathematics), an equivalence relation defined on absolute values of an integral domain or field
-
Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any
concentration of population
- Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government
- Incorporated place, a populated area with its own municipal government
- Place setting, a table setting for a single diner
- Place identity, a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants and users
- Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems
- Place value, the specific position occupied by each digit in a numeral
- Sense of place, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location
- Place, a type of bet
Place may also be:
- Unity of place, one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics
- Locus, the Latin word for "place"
- An individual's place in society, or social position
- A street type designation for a cul-de-sac
- Part of the name of a public space such as a town square, plaza or piazza
- In the United Kingdom, as a gazetteer entry for a location which does not have an official status such as town or parish but is nonetheless identifiable
Persons with the surname of Place:
- Etta Place
- Francis Place
- Basil Charles Godfrey Place (1921–1994), a British naval officer
- Martha M. Place (1855?–1899), an American murderer
- Mary Kay Place
- Robert M. Place
- Ullin Place, a philosopher
Other
- Melrose Place, a television series
- Peyton Place, a novel, film and television series
- Place House, a historic building in Fowey, Cornwall
- A common misspelling of Plaice, a type of fish
See also
- lookfrom place
- lookfrom placing
- Placement (disambiguation)
- Set (disambiguation)
- Placé, a commune in Pays de la Loire, France
place in German: Place
place in French: Place
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anschauung, Autobahn, OK, US highway, a leg up, abiding
place, abode, address, advance, agora, airspace, align, all right, all set,
allegiance, alley, alleyway, allocate, allot, alphabetize, amphitheater, analyze, angle, angle of vision, anoint, antepast, apartment, apply, appointment, apportion, appropriate, approximate, area, arena, arise, arrange, array, arrive, arterial, arterial highway,
arterial street, artery,
ascribe, assign, assigned task, associate, assort, athletic field, attach, attribute, auditorium, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, awkward, background, basis, bear garden, bearings, belt, belt highway, bench mark,
berth, billet, blind alley, boulevard, bounden duty,
bout, bowl, boxing ring, bracket, break down, bring down,
bull ring, bung, burden, burden with, business, buy in, buy into,
bypass, byway, call, call of duty, camino real,
campo, campus, cantonment, canvas, capacity, carriageway, case, caste, catalog, categorize, causeway, causey, chair, chance, character, charge, chaussee, chore, circumferential,
circumstance,
circumstances,
circus, city, class, classify, clear stage, close, cockpit, codify, coliseum, collocate, colosseum, come about,
commitment, compose, concern, condition, confines, connection, consider, continental shelf,
continuity, corduroy
road, correct, corridor, country, county road, course, court, cover, crash pad, crescent, crib, crown, cul-de-sac, dead-end
street, deal, deal out,
dedication, deference, degree, demand, department, deploy, deposit, dessert, determinate, devoir, devotion, diagnose, digest, diggings, digs, dike, dirt road, dish, dispose, distinguish, distribute, district, divide, division, domicile, domus, drive, driveway, duties and
responsibilities, duty,
dwelling, dwelling
place, echelon, embarrass, emplace, emplacement, employment, engagement, enjoin, enthrone, entree, entremets, environs, establish, estate, ethics, exact, expressway, eye, fair field, fair game, farmstead, fasten upon,
fealty, field, file, financier, finger, fitting, fix, flat, floor, flourish, footing, forum, frame of reference,
framework, freeway, freight with, function, get a fix, get ahead,
gig, give, go, go on, go places, good form,
gradation, grade, grange, gravel road, ground, group, gym, gymnasium, habitation, hacienda, hall, hamlet, happen, have, heartland, help, helping, hierarchy, highroad, highway, highways and byways,
hinterland, hippodrome, hole, homage, home, home in on, home place,
homecroft, homestead, house, house and grounds, house
and lot, humble, identify, imperative, impose, impose on, impose upon,
improper, impute, in order, in place, in
situ, inappropriate, inaugurate, incumbency, index, induct, inflict on, inflict upon,
inning, innings, install, instate, interstate highway,
invest, invest in,
jam, job, judge, know, know again, land, lane, latitude and longitude,
lay, lay on, lay out money,
levy, liberty, lieu, light, line, line of duty, line up,
list, lists, livelihood, local road,
locale, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, lodging, lodging place, lodgings, lodgment, lot, loyalty, main drag, main road,
make a splash, make an investment, make good, make out, market, market cross, marketplace, marshal, mart, mat, mental outlook, messuage, mews, milieu, misplaced, mission, modality, mode, moonlighting, mortify, motorway, must, nail, navigate, neighborhood, nest, niche, obligation, occasion, occupation, occur, office, offshore rights, okay, onus, open forum, opening, opportunism, opportunity, order, ought, out of place, outlook, pad, palaestra, parade ground,
parcel out, park, parkway, part, parts, pass, pave, paved road, peg, piazza, pickle, pigeonhole, pike, pin down, pinpoint, pit, place in office, place to live,
placement, plank road,
plate, platform, plaza, plight, plow back into, plunge, point, point of view, portion, pose, posit, position, post, posture, power structure,
precedence, precinct, precincts, predicament, premises, primary highway,
private road, prize ring, proper, prosper, province, public square,
purlieu, purlieus, purpose, put, put down, put in, put in place,
put on, put out, put upon, quarter, quarters, rally, ranch, rancho, range, rank, rate, rating, ready, realize, recall, recall knowledge of,
reckon, recognize, refer, reference system, regard, regiment, region, reidentify, reinvest, relief, remember, residence, respect, responsibility, rialto, right, right-of-way, ring, ring road, risk, road, roadbed, roadway, role, roof, room, rooms, round, route nationale, row, royal road, saddle with,
salient, say, scene, scene of action, scenery, scope, seat, second helping, second job,
secondary road, section,
see, self-imposed duty,
sequence, serial order,
service, serving, set, set out, set up, setting, settle, side, sight, sink, sink money in, site, situate, situation, situs, slant, slot, soil, sort, space, speculate, speedway, spell, sphere, spot, square, squared circle, squelch, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting,
stand, standing, standpoint, state, state highway, station, status, stead, steading, stepping-stone,
stick, street, strike it rich, subdivide, subject to,
submit, subordination, succeed, suitable, superhighway, system, tabulate, take place, task, tax, tell, tenure, terrace, terrain, territory, theater, thoroughfare, three-mile
limit, thrive, throne, through street, thruway, tilting ground,
tiltyard, time, time at bat, toft, toll road, town, township road, tract, transpire, triangulate, turn, turnpike, twelve-mile limit,
type, uncomfortable, universe, unsuitable, vacancy, venture, vicinage, vicinity, view, viewpoint, village, walk, weight down with, whack, where, whereabout, whereabouts, wrestling ring,
wrong, wynd, yoke with, zero in on,
zone