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Place   /pleɪs/   Listen
Place

noun
1.
A point located with respect to surface features of some region.  Synonyms: spot, topographic point.  "A bright spot on a planet"
2.
Any area set aside for a particular purpose.  Synonym: property.  "The president was concerned about the property across from the White House"
3.
An abstract mental location.  "A place in my heart" , "A political system with no place for the less prominent groups"
4.
A general vicinity.
5.
The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another.  Synonyms: lieu, position, stead.  "Took his place" , "In lieu of"
6.
A particular situation.  Synonym: shoes.
7.
Where you live at a particular time.  Synonym: home.  "He doesn't have a home to go to" , "Your place or mine?"
8.
A job in an organization.  Synonyms: berth, billet, office, position, post, situation, spot.
9.
The particular portion of space occupied by something.  Synonym: position.
10.
Proper or designated social situation.  Synonym: station.  "The responsibilities of a man in his station" , "Married above her station"
11.
A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).  Synonym: seat.  "He sat in someone else's place"
12.
The passage that is being read.
13.
Proper or appropriate position or location.
14.
A public square with room for pedestrians.  Synonyms: piazza, plaza.  "Grosvenor Place"
15.
An item on a list or in a sequence.  Synonym: position.  "Moved from third to fifth position"
16.
A blank area.  Synonyms: blank space, space.
verb
(past & past part. placed; pres. part. placing)
1.
Put into a certain place or abstract location.  Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set.  "Set the tray down" , "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" , "Place emphasis on a certain point"
2.
Place somebody in a particular situation or location.
3.
Assign a rank or rating to.  Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate.  "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
4.
Assign a location to.  Synonyms: locate, site.
5.
To arrange for.  "Place a bet"
6.
Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal.  Synonyms: come in, come out.
7.
Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.  Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target.  "Criticism directed at her superior" , "Direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
8.
Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something.  Synonym: identify.
9.
Assign to (a job or a home).
10.
Locate.  Synonyms: localise, localize, set.
11.
Estimate.  Synonyms: put, set.
12.
Identify the location or place of.  Synonyms: localise, localize.
13.
Make an investment.  Synonyms: commit, invest, put.
14.
Assign to a station.  Synonyms: post, send, station.
15.
Finish second or better in a horse or dog race.
16.
Sing a note with the correct pitch.



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"Place" Quotes from Famous Books



... circle of tentacles whose motion round the mouth is the means of securing nourishment. There are, however, peculiarities in the structure of the Polyzoa which seem to remove them from Zoophytology to a place in the system of nature more nearly connected with Molluscan types. Some of them come so near to the compound ascidians that they have been termed, as an order, ...
— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley
... heap of dry wood is gathered from the desert. At the appointed moment the great pile of inflammable brush is lighted and in a few moments the whole of it is ablaze. Storms of sparks fly 100 feet or more into the air, and ashes fall about like a shower of snow. The ceremony always takes place at night and the effect of it is ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... low-spirited for a month, and in a year would have been wreathed with smiles, and arranging her trousseau for a wedding with another bridegroom. The only thing which could really have distressed her long, would have been if the vacant place in her life had ...
— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt
... broken, the thread that had carried the message of dead love between him and the lonely grave beyond Subiaco was definitely broken. Stefanone came to receive the small sum which Griggs paid him monthly for his care of the place, and Griggs paid him as he would have paid his tailor, mechanically, and made a note of the payment in his pocket-book. When the man was gone, Griggs felt that his double was staring at the wall as a man stares at the dark surface of the pool in which the ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... uneasily in his place. "Well, I ain't quite worked that scheme out, Joe. But I smell the deal. There's a Russian post along there some'eres. Where they catch sea-otters. And the skins o' sea-otters are selling this very day for seventy dollars at any ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris


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