place
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
motor-racing
pets
racing
sports
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, stede (partially), 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.
In the etymological chain from Latin platēa, note Old French place, which has multiple descendants — including German Platz, itself with many descendants (e.g., Russian плац (plac)). Also note a more distant chain node Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), whence English Plato and English plate (via Latin).
Inflected forms:
form: places
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pleace
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: places
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: placing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: place
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: place
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: place
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: placest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: placedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: places
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: placeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: place
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: place
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: place
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: placing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: placed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yplaced
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: pleace
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
physical
uncountable
examples: They live at Westminster Place.
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: He is going back to his native place on vacation.
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.
Do you want to come over to my place later?
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: Which place hurts the most?
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
physical
slang
uncountable
examples: Place,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease.
‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...
‘She means the little girls room.’
gloss: An area; somewhere within an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
physical
uncountable
gloss: A location or position in space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In that same place thou hast appointed me,
To-morrow truly will I meete with thee.
What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
gloss: A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I lost my place when you interrupted me.
gloss: A passage or extract from a book or document.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A topic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: A state of mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'm in a strange place at the moment.
gloss: A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A responsibility or position in an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Escalus.Esc.I shall desire you, Sir, to giue me leaue
To haue free speech with you; and it concernes me
To looke into the bottome of my place :
A powre I haue, but of what strength and nature,
I am not yet instructed.
Men in great place are thrice servants.
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
gloss: A responsibility or position in an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
gloss: A responsibility or position in an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to win a bet on a horse for place
gloss: A responsibility or position in an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He lost his place in the national team.
gloss: A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: three decimal places;  the hundreds place
gloss: Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That's what I said in the first place!
a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor
In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion […]
gloss: Reception; effect, implying the making room for.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My word hath no place in you.
gloss: To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He placed the glass on the table.
to place someone on a pedestal
His life vvas nigh vnto deaths dore yplaſte, / And thred-bare cote, and cobled ſhoes hee vvare, […]
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
gloss: To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: The Cowboys placed third in the league.
Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.
gloss: To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
examples: In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.
gloss: To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.
gloss: To vouch for someone's alibi.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.
gloss: To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We were all focused intently on the triangular conference call speaker in the middle of the table. President Trump's communications team was placing a call to President Volodymyr Zelenksy of Ukraine, and we were here to listen.
to place a call
to place an order
to place an ad in the newspaper
to place a bid
to place a bet
to place a wager
gloss: To bet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.
gloss: To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
Designated as the core of the southern forces were: the 5th Division, which was recalled from northern French Indochina to Shanghai, placed under the direct control of Imperial Headquarters, and, on October 12, ordered to “train primarily for landing operations” (Imperial Headquarters Army Order 467); the Imperial Guard Division, which was ordered on October 22 to assemble at Shant’ou (Swatow); the 48th Division, reorganized on October 22 from the Taiwan Mixed Brigade and ordered to advance to Hainan island; and the 18th Division at Canton.
gloss: To place-kick (a goal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To assign (more or less value) to something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My workplace places a high premium on team spirit.
She places little value on religion.
Synonyms: location
position
situation
stead
stell
spot
achieve
make
Derived words: abiding-place
age in place
all dressed up and no place to go
all dressed up with no place to go
all over the place
all over the place like a mad woman's custard
another place
anyplace
as if someone owns the place
better place
between a rock and a hard place
birthplace
burial-place
burial place
buryingplace
businessplace
by-place
census-designated place
change place
change places
come from a good place
come from the right place
common-place
cyberplace
defector-in-place
degree place
Delivered At Place
don't spend it all in one place
due place
dwelling-place
Elmwood Place
emplace
everyplace
fall about the place
fall into place
farmplace
fast food place
find one's place
fireplace
friends in high places
gathering place
give place
hair out of place
happy place
have one's heart in the right place
hearthplace
hiding-place
hiding place
high place
homeplace
incorporated place
in place
in place of
in places
interplace
in the first place
in the right place at the right time
in the wrong place at the wrong time
into place
jumping-off place
know one's place
landing place
Launching Place
learn one's place
letterplace
lightning does not strike twice in the same place
lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place
lightning never strikes twice in the same place
like one owns the place
like someone owns the place
market place
marketplace
midplace
misplace
necessary place
non-place
nonplace
No Place
no place
noplace
of place
out-of-place
out of place
outplace
overplace
parking place
partyplace
pick and place
pizza place
placeability
placeable
place an order
place blindness
placeblog
place card
place cell
placeful
placegetter
placegetting
placeholder
place holder
placeholding
place-hunter
place importance on
place in the sun
placekick
place kick
place-kick
placeless
placemaker
placemaking
placeman
placemark
placemarker
place mat
place money
placemonger
placename
place-name
place name
placeness
place of articulation
place of birth
place of business
place of decimals
place of honor
place of honour
place of worship
place one's cards on the table
placepot
place setting
placeshift
placeshifting
place shifting
place to be
place value
place word
placial
playplace
polling place
postplace
preplace
preposition of place
pride of place
public place
put oneself in someone's place
put someone in their place
replace
resting-place
safe place
sense of place
shelter in place
shelter-in-place
showplace
someplace
sticking place
sticking-place
subplace
take one's place
take place
take someone's place
take the place of
the bad place
the darkest place is under the candlestick
the other place
there is a place and time for everything
there is a time and place for everything
there's a place and time for everything
there's a time and a place for everything
there's a time and place for everything
there's no place like home
third place
time-manner-place
transplace
underplace
unincorporated place
unity of place
unplace
unplaceable
valet-de-place
washplace
watering place
wide place in the road
work-place
workplace
your place or mine
placement
well-placed
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: класирам се
roman: klasiram se
lang: Catalan
word: classificar-se
lang: Catalan
word: col·locar-se
lang: Catalan
word: posar-se
lang: Czech
word: umístit se
lang: Finnish
word: sijoittua
lang: French
word: se placer
lang: French
word: arriver
lang: Hebrew
word: הגיע
roman: higía
lang: Japanese
word: 入賞する
roman: nyūshō suru
lang: Macedonian
word: сместува
roman: smestuva
lang: Macedonian
word: пласира
roman: plasira
lang: Norwegian
word: plassere seg
lang: Portuguese
word: classificar-se
lang: Portuguese
word: chegar
lang: Portuguese
word: obter
lang: Spanish
word: clasificarse
lang: Spanish
word: colocarse
lang: Swedish
word: placera sig
lang: Telugu
word: సాధించు
roman: sādhiñcu
lang: Ukrainian
word: посіда́ти
roman: posidáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: посі́сти
roman: posísty
lang: Finnish
word: päästä
lang: Japanese
word: なる
roman: naru
lang: Japanese
word: つく
roman: tsuku
lang: Japanese
word: 決まる
roman: kimaru
lang: Japanese
word: 定まる
roman: sadamaru