standing placen.
/ˈstandɪŋ pleɪs/, U.S. /ˈstændɪŋ ˌpleɪs/ΚΠ
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. xlviii. 719 Euerych suche felde oþer lieþ leye and is a stondyng place [L. aruus, i. sacionalis], oþer bereþ treen, or is able to pasture and lieþ leye [read lieþ to lese] for bestes, or bereþ floures and is able to been.
2. A place assigned or reserved for a person or thing to stand in; a place designed to accommodate a person or people standing.In quot. 1438: a place assigned to a market trader.Often used of an allocated standing spot or area at a theatre, sports venue, etc., as opposed to a seat.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > position for standing in
standing placec1425
fundamenta1450
standinga1450
podisma1460
footing placea1568
pou sto1831
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 3303 Þe flodis rauȝt hem [sc. her tentis] from her stondynge place.
1438 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 10 (MED) Also that no persone..procure ne put othir persone..out of his hous, shop, or stonding place.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 287/1 Statio,..the soldiours station or standing place, which they are appointed to keepe in the time of warre.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Station, a standing place, a Bay or Rode for ships to rest in.
1741 tr. F. de S. de la M. Fénélon in tr. L. Riccoboni Hist. & Crit. Acct. Theatres in Europe 197 They pay Twenty-pence for the Pit, Thirty-pence for the Boxes, for the Standing-Places Six-pence, [etc.].
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xiii. 125 A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing-places on it.
1908 Nation 23 May 265/1 A careful survey of the Abbey will, I feel certain, convince everyone that there is absolutely no longer any standing place in any part of it for a full-length statue of the late Premier.
2011 C. E. Benzecry Opera Fanatic Notes 202 The Metropolitan Opera House has only 175 standing places.
3. A place where a person is standing.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > where one takes up a position, residence, etc.
space?a1400
standa1400
stance1532
settling1582
station1587
consistory1592
roosting place1643
pitch1699
standing place1736
terrain1832
1736 C. Wesley Let. Lady Oglethorpe in J. Telford Methodist Hymn-bk. (1906) 429 The vastness of the watery waste, as compared with my standing-place, called to mind the briefness of human life and the immensity of its consequences.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 294 A high-place dedicated to the heathen Nebo, as Balaam's standing-place had been consecrated to Peor.
1904 R. Parrish When Wilderness was King xvii. 176 The sunlight.., as she drew nearer to my standing-place, played softly amid the masses of her dark-brown hair.
2000 Indian Express (Nexis) 28 Jan. A person, at any point in the city should find a public mode of transport within 500 metres of his standing place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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