Meaning of place | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. An area; somewhere within an area.
   countable, physical, uncountable
3. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
   countable, physical, uncountable
4. An area; somewhere within an area. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name
5. An unincorporated community in the town of Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.
   countable, uncountable
6. A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
   countable, often, physical, uncountable
7. To be among those who finish a competition or race, especially to finish second.
8. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard
9. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
   countable, physical, uncountable
10. To qualify for a waiver of a requirement or prerequisite: placed out of a freshman composition class.
11. A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name
12. Any area of the earth: a region.
    countable, physical, uncountable
13. In or to many locations; everywhere: Film is sold all over the place.
14. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city
15. Instead of.
16. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
    countable, physical, uncountable
17. Any area of the earth: a region
18. To recognize one's social position and act according to traditional decorum.
19. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
    countable, physical, uncountable
20. A dominant or favorable position or situation.
21. An area of the body, especially the skin.
    countable, physical, uncountable
22. the name of a town, hill, valley etc. pleknaam إسْم المَكان название topônimo místní jméno der Ortsname stednavn τοπωνύμιοtopónimo kohanimi نام مکان paikannimi nom de lieu שם של מקום नगर इत्यादि का नाम ime mjesta (naselja) hely(ség)név nama tempat staðarnafn toponimo 地名 지명 vietovardis vietvārds nama tempat plaatsnaamstedsnavn nazwa geograficzna د یو ځای نوم topónimo toponimie, nume de locuri географическое название miestny názov krajevno ime toponim ortnamn ชื่อสถานที่ yer adı 地名 географічна ...
    etc
23. An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
    countable, euphemistic, physical, slang, uncountable
24. to be successful, especially in one's career. That young man is sure to go places. sukses behaal يَنْجَح في عَمَلِه успявам ir longe dotáhnout to daleko es weit bringen få succes πάω μπροστά, προοδεύω επαγγελματικά llegar lejos edu saavutama موفق شدن menestyä aller loin לְהַצלִיח सफल होना na sve strane sikeres sukses komast áfram avere successo, sfondare 出世する 성공하다, 출세하다 aukštai iškilti, padaryti karjerą gūt panākumus; tikt dzīvē uz augšu berjaya het ver brengen komme seg fram, drive det til n...
    especially
25. An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
    countable, obsolete, physical, uncountable
26. expressions used to show steps in an argument, explanation etc. He decided not to buy the house, because in the first place it was too expensive, and in the second place it was too far from his office. in die eerste/tweede/derde plek أولا، في المَقام الأوَّل първо, второ em primeiro (segundo, etc) lugar za prvé, za druhé erstens, zweitens, etc. for det første; for det andet etc πρώτον, δεύτερον κτλ. en primer/segundo lugar esiteks, teiseks ...در درجه ensinnäkin, toisekseen d'abord....ensuite....
    etc
27. A location or position in space.
    countable, uncountable
28. in the proper position; tidy. He left everything in place. in plek في مَكانِه الصَّحيح на място no lugar na svém místě am Platz på plads στη σωστή θέση, τακτοποιημένα en su lugar/sitio, ordenado õigel(e) kohal(e) مناسب؛ بجا paikalleen en place, à sa place בַּמָקוֹם הַנָכוֹן अपने स्थान पर, संगत, उचित mjesto rendben di tempat semestinya á sínum stað in ordine きちんと 제자리에, 적당한 savo vietoje savā vietā dlm keadaan teratur op zijn plaats på sin (rette) plass na swoim miejscu په ځای no seu lugar la lo...
29. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
    countable, uncountable
30. A passage or extract from a book or document.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
31. A topic.
    countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable
32. A state of mind.
    countable, uncountable
33. A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
34. A responsibility or position in an organization.
    countable, uncountable
35. A role or purpose; a station.
    countable, uncountable
36. The position of a contestant in a competition.
    countable, uncountable
37. The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
    countable, uncountable
38. The position as a member of a sports team.
    countable, uncountable
39. A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
40. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
    countable, uncountable
41. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
    countable, uncountable
42. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“They live at Westminster Place.”

“He is going back to his native place on vacation.”

“From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.”

“We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.”

“My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.”

“Do you want to come over to my place later?”

“Which place hurts the most?”

“Place,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease.”

“‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’... ‘She means the little girls room.’”

“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?”

“When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.”

“By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.”

“I lost my place when you interrupted me.”

“I'm in a strange place at the moment.”

“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.”

“Men in great place are thrice servants.”

“The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.”

“We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.”

“to win a bet on a horse for place”

“He lost his place in the national team.”

“three decimal places;  the hundreds place”

“That's what I said in the first place!”

“a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion […]”

“My word hath no place in you.”

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