An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of space.
Room or space, especially adequate space: There is place for everyone at the back of the room.
The particular portion of space occupied by or allocated to a person or thing.
A building or an area set aside for a specified purpose: a place of worship.
A dwelling; a house: bought a place on the lake.
A business establishment or office.
A locality, such as a town or city: visited many places.
A space in which one person, such as a passenger or spectator, can sit or stand.
A setting for one person at a table.
The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society.
The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place.
A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue.
The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.
The particular portion of space occupied by or allocated to a person or thing.
A building or an area set aside for a specified purpose: a place of worship.
A dwelling; a house: bought a place on the lake.
A business establishment or office.
A locality, such as a town or city: visited many places.
A space in which one person, such as a passenger or spectator, can sit or stand.
A setting for one person at a table.
The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society.
The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place.
A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue.
The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.
A dwelling; a house: bought a place on the lake.
A business establishment or office.
A locality, such as a town or city: visited many places.
A space in which one person, such as a passenger or spectator, can sit or stand.
A setting for one person at a table.
The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society.
The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place.
A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue.
The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.
Abbr. Pl. A public square or street with houses in a town.
A space in which one person, such as a passenger or spectator, can sit or stand.
A setting for one person at a table.
The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society.
The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place.
A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue.
The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.
A position regarded as belonging to someone or something else; stead: She was chosen in his place.
A particular point that one has reached, as in a book: I have lost my place.
A particular spot, as on the body: the place that hurts.
The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society.
The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place.
A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue.
The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.
Social station: He overstepped his place.
A particular situation or circumstance: Put yourself in my place.
High rank or status.
A job, post, or position: found a place in the company.
Relative position in a series; standing.
Games Second position for betting purposes, as in a horserace.
The specified stage in a list of points to be made, as in an argument: in the first place.
Mathematics A position in a numeral or series.
v.
placed, plac·ing, plac·es
v.
tr.
To put in or as if in a particular place or position; set.
To put in a specified relation or order: Place the words in alphabetical order.
To offer for consideration: placed the matter before the board.
To find accommodation or employment for.
To put into a particular condition: placed him under arrest.
To arrange for the publication or display of: place an advertisement in the newspaper.
To appoint to a post: placed her in a key position.
To rank in an order or sequence: I'd place him second best.
To estimate: placed the distance at 100 feet.
To give an order for: place a bet.
To apply or arrange for: place an order.
To identify or classify in a particular context: could not place that person's face.
To give an order for: place a bet.
To apply or arrange for: place an order.
To adjust (one's voice) for the best possible effects.
v.
intr. To be among those who finish a competition or race, especially to finish second. Phrasal Verb(s): place outTo qualify for a waiver of a requirement or prerequisite: placed out of a freshman composition class.
Idiom(s):
all over the placeIn or to many locations; everywhere: Film is sold all over the place.
Idiom(s):
in place
In the appropriate or usual position or order: With everything in place, she started the slide show.
In the same spot; without moving forwards or backwards: While marching in place, the band played a popular tune.
Idiom(s):
in place ofInstead of.
Idiom(s):
keep/know (one's) placeTo recognize one's social position and act according to traditional decorum.
Idiom(s):
place in the sunA dominant or favorable position or situation.
[Middle English, from Old English plæce and Old French place, open space (from Medieval Latin placea, from Vulgar Latin *plattea), both from Latin platēa, broad street, from Greek plateia (hodos), broad (street), feminine of platus; see plat- in Indo-European roots.] place'a·ble adj., plac'er n.
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