place

Meanings

Noun

• An area; somewhere within an area.
• A location or position in space.
• A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• A passage or extract from a book or document.
• A topic.
• A frame of mind.
• A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• A responsibility or position in an organization.
• A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

Verb

• To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• To earn a given spot in a competition.
• To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• To place-kick (a goal).

Related

Similar words

• courtyard, piazza, plaza, square
• seat
• location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot
• frame of mind, mindset, mood
• deposit, lay, lay down, put down
• achieve, make
• reach

Narrower meaning words

• abiding place
• decimal place
• dwelling place
• hiding place
• meeting place
• passing place
• purging place
• resting place
• workplace

Origin

• From Middle English place, conflation of Old English plæse, plætse, plæċe and Old French place, both from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα, shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-, extended form of *pleh₂-. Displaced native Old English stōw. Compare also English pleck, West Frisian plak, Dutch plek. piatza, piazza, and plaza.
• From Middle English placen, from the noun (see above).