place

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
2. (countable, often, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
3. (countable, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
4. (countable, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
5. (countable, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
6. (countable, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
7. (countable, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
8. (countable, euphemistic, physical, slang, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
9. (countable, obsolete, physical, uncountable) An area; somewhere within an area.
10. (countable, uncountable) A location or position in space.
11. (countable, uncountable) A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
12. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A passage or extract from a book or document.
13. (countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable) A topic.
14. (countable, uncountable) A state of mind.
15. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
16. (countable, uncountable) A responsibility or position in an organization.
17. (countable, uncountable) A responsibility or position in an organization.
18. (countable, uncountable) A responsibility or position in an organization.
19. (countable, uncountable) A responsibility or position in an organization.
20. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
21. (countable, uncountable) Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
22. (countable, uncountable) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
23. (countable, uncountable) Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

Verb

1. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
2. (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
3. (ergative, intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
4. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
5. (transitive) To vouch for someone's alibi.
6. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
7. (transitive) To make.
8. (transitive) To bet.
9. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
10. (transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
11. (transitive) To assign (more or less value) to something.

Synonyms

put

location

position

set

spot

site

lay

seat

💺

area

space

region

locate

room

situation

locality

put down

country

point

post

lay down

station

🚉

home

🏠

rank

land

arrange

district

abode

install

whereabouts

plant

🌱

deposit

part

locale

set up

field

house

🏠

stead

venue

fix

direction

camp

situate

square

job

stand

order

invest

residence

assign

put away

Translations

lieu

endroit

place

lugar

Platz

mettre

placer

Ort

poser

luogo

lugar

Stelle

مكان

posto

plaats

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pleɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: place

Inherited from Old English: plæse

Inherited from Middle English: placen

In summary

From Middle English place, conflation of Old English 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.

Sentences

Is this the place ?

The march is supposed to take place in March .

We used all your imagination to design the place .

Unfortunately the trip never took place and the season was ended very quietly .

So there was no pressure to demolish old buildings to put new ones at their place .

Your son went to serve at a distant place , and became a centurion .