place /plās/

1. A portion of space
2. A portion of the earth's surface, or any surface
3. A position in space, or on the earth's surface, or in any system, order, or arrangement
4. A building, room, piece of ground, etc, assigned to some purpose (eg place of business, entertainment, worship)
5. A particular locality
6. A town, village, etc
7. A dwelling or home
8. A mansion with its grounds
9. A battlefield (obsolete)
10. A fortress, fortified town (obsolete)
11. An open space in a town, a market-place or square
12. (with cap) used in street names esp for a row or group of houses, a short street or a circus
13. A seat or accommodation in a theatre, train, at table, etc
14. Space occupied
15. Room
16. The position held by anybody, employment, office, a situation, esp under government or in domestic service
17. Due or proper position or dignity
18. That which is incumbent on one
19. Precedence
20. Position in a series
21. High rank
22. Position attained in a competition or assigned by criticism
23. Position among the first three in a race
24. Stead
25. Pitch reached by a bird of prey (obsolete except in pride of place, qv)
26. (in reading-matter, narrative, conversation, etc) the point which the reader or speaker has reached when he stops or is interrupted
27. A topic, matter of discourse (obsolete)
28. A passage in a book (obsolete)

1. To put in any place
2. To assign to a place
3. To find a place, home, job, publisher, etc, for
4. To find a buyer for (usu a large quantity of stocks or shares; commerce)
5. To propose, lay or put (with before)
6. To induct
7. To appoint
8. To identify
9. To invest
10. To arrange (a loan, bet, etc)
11. To put (trust, etc, in)
12. To state the finishing positions of (the competitors, esp the first three) in a race or competition
13. To ascribe (with to; archaic)

1. To finish a race or competition (in a specified position)
2. To finish a race in second (if otherwise unspecified) position (horse-racing)

placed adjective

1. Set in place or in a place
2. Having a place
3. Among the first three in a race
4. Inducted to a position or office

placeˈless adjective

Without place or office

placeˈment noun

1. Placing or setting
2. Assigning to places
3. Assigning to a job
4. A temporary job providing work experience, esp for someone on a training course

placˈer noun

placˈing noun

1. Position, esp a finishing position in a race or competition
2. The process of finding an intermediary buyer for large numbers of (usu newly issued) shares, etc (commerce)

place card noun

A card placed before each setting on the table at a banquet, formal dinner, etc, with the name of the person who is to sit there

placeˈholder noun

A symbol representing a missing term or quantity in a mathematical expression

placeˈ-hunter noun (archaic)

Someone who covets and strives after a public post

place kick noun

(in rugby, etc) a kick made when the ball has been placed on the ground for that purpose

placeˈ-kicker noun

placeˈman noun (pl placeˈmen)

Someone who has a place or office under a government, esp if gained by selfishness or ambition

place mat noun

A table mat set at a person's place setting

placeˈ-monger noun

Someone who traffics in appointments to places

place name noun

A geographical proper name

place setting noun

Each person's set of crockery, cutlery and glassware as used at a dining table

place value noun

The value that a digit has because of the position that it occupies in a number

all over the place

1. Scattered
2. In a muddle or mess, confused, disorganized (informal)

fall into place

To be resolved

give place (to)

1. To make room (for)
2. To be superseded (by)

go places see under go¹

have place

To have existence

in place

1. In position
2. Opportune

in place of

Instead of

in the first place

Firstly, originally

know one's place

To show proper subservience

lose one's place

To falter in following a text, etc, not know what point has been reached

lose the place (informal)

1. To flounder, be at a loss, be all at sea
2. To lose one's temper

out of place

1. Out of due position
2. Inappropriate, unseasonable

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• swan-maiden
• swan-maidens
• swan-mark