place
place (plās) noun
1. a. An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of space. b. Room or space, especially adequate space: There is place for everyone at the back of the room.
2. a. The particular portion of space occupied by or allocated to a person or thing. b. A building or an area set aside for a specified purpose: a place of worship.
3. a. A dwelling; a house: bought a place on the lake. b. A business establishment or office. c. A locality, such as a town or a city: visited many places.
4. Often Place Abbr. pl., Pl. A public square or street with houses in a town.
5. a. A space in which one person, such as a passenger or a spectator, can sit or stand. b. A setting for one person at a table.
6. A position regarded as belonging to someone or something else; stead: She was chosen in his place.
7. A particular point that one has reached, as in a book: I have lost my place.
8. A particular spot, as on the body: the place that hurts.
9. a. The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society. b. The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place. c. A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue. d. The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.
10. Social station: He overstepped his place.
11. A particular situation or circumstance: Put yourself in my place.
12. High rank or status.
13. A job, post, or position: found a place in the company.
14. Relative position in a series; standing.
15. Games. Second position for betting purposes, as in a horserace.
16. The specified stage in a list of points to be made, as in an argument: in the first place.
17. Mathematics. The position of a figure in a numeral or series.
verb
placed, placing, places
verb, transitive
1. To put in or as if in a particular place or position; set.
2. To put in a specified relation or order: Place the words in alphabetical order.
3. To offer for consideration: placed the matter before the board.
4. To find accommodation or employment for.
5. To put into a particular condition: placed him under arrest.
6. To arrange for the publication or display of: place an advertisement in the newspaper.
7. To appoint to a post: placed her in a key position.
8. a. To rank in an order or a sequence: I'd place him second best. b. To estimate: placed the distance at 100 feet.
9. To identify or classify in a particular context: could not place that person's face.
10. a. To give an order for: place a bet. b. To apply or arrange for: place an order.
11. To adjust (one's voice) for the best possible effects.
verb, intransitive
Sports & Games.
To arrive among the first three finishers in a race, especially to finish second.
idiom.
in place
1. In the appropriate or usual position or order: With everything in place, she started the slide show.
2. In the same spot; without moving forwards or backwards: While marching in place, the band played a popular tune.
in place of
Instead of.
keep (one's) place or know (one's) place
To recognize one's social position and act according to traditional decorum.
put (someone) in his or her place
To lower the dignity of (someone); humble.
place in the sun
A dominant or favorable position or situation.
[Middle English, from Old English plæce Old French, 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.]
placeʹable adjective
placʹer noun