Definitions for place

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place place

Spelling: [pleys]

IPA: /pleɪs/

Place is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in place (acelp).

Definitions for place

noun

1. a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
2. space in general:
3. the specific portion of space normally occupied by anything:
4. a space, area, or spot, set apart or used for a particular purpose:
5. any part or spot in a body or surface:
6. a particular passage in a book or writing:
7. a space or seat for a person, as in a theater, train, etc.:
8. position, situation, or circumstances:
9. a proper or appropriate location or position:
10. a job, post, or office:
11. a function or duty:
12. proper sequence or relationship, as of ideas, details, etc.:
13. high position or rank:
14. a region or area:
15. an open space, or square, as in a city or town.
16. a short street, a court, etc.
17. a portion of space used for habitation, as a city, town, or village:
18. a building, location, etc., set aside for a specific purpose:
19. a part of a building:
20. a residence, dwelling, or house:
21. lieu; substitution (usually followed by of):
22. a step or point in order of proceeding:
23. a fitting or promising opportunity:
24. a reasonable ground or occasion:
25. Arithmetic. the position of a figure in a series, as in decimal notation. Usually, places. the figures of the series.
26. Drama. one of the three unities. Compare unity (def 8).
27. Sports. a position among the leading competitors, usually the first, second, or third at the finish line. the position of the competitor who comes in second in a horse race, harness race, etc. Compare show (def 27), win1 (def 17).
28. places, Theater. a call summoning performers for the beginning of a performance or an act.
29. room or space for entry or passage:

Idioms

1. give place to, to give precedence or priority to: to be succeeded or replaced by:
2. go places, Informal. to succeed or advance in one's career:
3. in place, in the correct or usual position or order: in the same spot, without advancing or retreating:
4. know / keep one's place, to recognize one's position or rank, especially if inferior, and behave or act accordingly:
5. out of place, not in the correct or usual position or order: unsuitable to the circumstances or surroundings; inappropriate:
6. put someone in his / her place, to lower someone's self-esteem; humble, especially an arrogant person:
7. take place, to happen; occur:

verb (used with object)

1. to put in the proper position or order; arrange; dispose:
2. to put or set in a particular place, position, situation, or relation.
3. to put in a suitable place for some purpose:
4. to put into particular or proper hands:
5. to give (an order or the like) to a supplier:
6. to appoint (a person) to a post or office:
7. to find a place, situation, etc., for (a person):
8. to determine or indicate the place or value of:
9. to assign a certain position or rank to:
10. to succeed in attaining a position for in an athletic or other contest:
11. to identify by connecting with the proper place, circumstances, etc.:
12. to employ (the voice) for singing or speaking with consciousness of the bodily point of emphasis of resonance of each tone or register.

verb (used without object)

1. Sports. to finish among the first three competitors in a race. to finish second in a horse race, harness race, etc.
2. to earn a specified standing with relation to others, as in an examination, competition, etc.:

Origin of place

before 950; (noun) Middle English, conflation of Old English plæce and Middle French place, both Latin platea, variant of platēa street, courtyard, area Greek plateîa broad street, noun use o

Examples for place

The country was rapidly becoming, they agreed, no place for a gentleman to live.

He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.

They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.

After my first trip to his place in Tucson we called one another on the telephone.

He'd just taken it off the ticker when we found him in Fouts's place there.

He'll be gold-bricked if he wears 'em scrambled that way around this place.

“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.

A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.

Deigma—A place in the Piræus, corresponding to the modern Exchange.