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place

noun
/ˈpleɪ̯s/US/ˈpleːs/

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).

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place

Definitions

  1. An area

    An area; somewhere within an area.

    • Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place

  2. A location or position in space.

    • 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?

  3. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader

    • I lost my place when you interrupted me.
  4. ›+ 21 more definitions

    1. A passage or extract from a book or document.

    2. A topic.

    3. A state of mind.

      • I'm in a strange place at the moment.

    4. A chess position

      A chess position; a square of the chessboard.

    5. A responsibility or position in an organization.

      • 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.

    6. A fortified position

      A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.

    7. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

      • three decimal places;  the hundreds place

    8. Ordinal relation

      Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

      • That's what I said in the first place!

    9. Reception

      Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

      • My word hath no place in you.

    10. To put (someone or something) in a specific location.

      • 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, […]

    11. To earn a given spot in a competition

      To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

      • The Cowboys placed third in the league.
      • Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.

    12. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

      • I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.

    13. To vouch for someone's alibi.

      • The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.

    14. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.

    15. To make.

      • 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

    16. To bet.

      • I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.

    17. To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for…

      To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.

      • They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.

    18. To place-kick (a goal).

    19. To assign (more or less value) to something.

      • My workplace places a high premium on team spirit.
      • She places little value on religion.

    20. A surname.

    21. An unincorporated community in the town of Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire,…

      An unincorporated community in the town of Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

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 · +147 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for place. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA