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place

Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪ̯s/

The English word “place” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
  2. 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. An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
  9. An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
  10. A location or position in space.
  11. Proper or usual position.
  12. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
  13. A passage or extract from a book or document.
  14. A topic.
  15. A state of mind.
  16. A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
  17. A role or purpose; a station.
  18. The position of a contestant in a competition.
  19. The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
  20. The position as a member of a sports team.

Etymology

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 platēa (“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,…

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