place

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of space.
2. n. Room or space, especially adequate space: There is place for everyone at the back of the room.
3. n. The particular portion of space occupied by or allocated to a person or thing.
4. n. A building or an area set aside for a specified purpose: a place of worship.
5. n. A dwelling; a house: bought a place on the lake.
6. n. A business establishment or office.
7. n. A locality, such as a town or city: visited many places.
8. n. A public square or street with houses in a town.
9. n. A space in which one person, such as a passenger or spectator, can sit or stand.
10. n. A setting for one person at a table.
11. n. A position regarded as belonging to someone or something else; stead: She was chosen in his place.
12. n. A particular point that one has reached, as in a book: I have lost my place.
13. n. A particular spot, as on the body: the place that hurts.
14. n. The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society.
15. n. The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place.
16. n. A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue.
17. n. The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.
18. n. Social station: He overstepped his place.
19. n. A particular situation or circumstance: Put yourself in my place.
20. n. High rank or status.
21. n. A job, post, or position: found a place in the company.
22. n. Relative position in a series; standing.
23. n. Games Second position for betting purposes, as in a horserace.
24. n. The specified stage in a list of points to be made, as in an argument: in the first place.
25. n. Mathematics A position in a numeral or series.
26. v. To put in or as if in a particular place or position; set.
27. v. To put in a specified relation or order: Place the words in alphabetical order.
28. v. To offer for consideration: placed the matter before the board.
29. v. To find accommodation or employment for.
30. v. To put into a particular condition: placed him under arrest.
31. v. To arrange for the publication or display of: place an advertisement in the newspaper.
32. v. To appoint to a post: placed her in a key position.
33. v. To rank in an order or sequence: I'd place him second best.
34. v. To estimate: placed the distance at 100 feet.
35. v. To identify or classify in a particular context: could not place that person's face.
36. v. To give an order for: place a bet.
37. v. To apply or arrange for: place an order.
38. v. To adjust (one's voice) for the best possible effects.
39. v. To be among those who finish a competition or race, especially to finish second.
40. place out To qualify for a waiver of a requirement or prerequisite: placed out of a freshman composition class.
41. idiom. all over the place In or to many locations; everywhere: Film is sold all over the place.
42. idiom. in place In the appropriate or usual position or order: With everything in place, she started the slide show.
43. idiom. in place In the same spot; without moving forwards or backwards: While marching in place, the band played a popular tune.
44. idiom. in place of Instead of.
45. idiom. keep To recognize one's social position and act according to traditional decorum.
46. idiom. place in the sun A dominant or favorable position or situation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A broad way or open space in a city or town; an area or public courtyard devoted to some particular use or having some specific character; a public square or quadrangle. With a proper or other distinctive name prefixed, place is often applied to a street or part of a street, or to a square: as, Waverley Place, Waterloo Place, Temple Place.
2. n. An area or portion of land marked off or regarded as marked off or separated from the rest, as by occupancy, use, or character; region; locality; site; spot.
3. n. A particular town or village: as, Hampton is a historic place; a thriving place.
4. n. A mansion with its adjoining grounds; a residence or dwelling; a manor-house.
5. n. A building or a part of a building set apart for any purpose; quarters of any kind: as, a place of worship; a place in the country; a place of business.
6. n. A fortified post; a stronghold.
7. n. Room to abide in; abode; lodgment; location.
8. n. Room to stand or sit in; a particular location, as a seat, or a space for sitting or standing, as in a coach, car, or public hall.
9. n. A particular locality; a particular spot or portion of a surface or in a body: as, a sore place; a soft place.
10. n. The proper or appropriate location or position: as, a place for everything, and everything in its place.
11. n. In the abstract, the determinate portion of space occupied by any body.
12. n. A portion or passage of a book or writing.
13. n. [In this sense a translation of L. locus, Gr. τόπος (see topic).] In logic and rhetoric, a topic; a class of matters of discourse; an order of considerations comprising all those which have analogous relations to their subjects.
14. n. In. falconry, the greatest elevation which a bird of prey attains in its flight.
15. n. Room; stead: with the sense of substitution: preceded by in.
16. n. A situation; an appointment; an employment; hence, office: as, a politician striving for place; a coachman wanting a place.
17. n. Official or social status or dignity; vocation, station, or condition in life, etc.: as, to make one know his place.
18. n. Precedence; priority in rank, dignity, or importance.
19. n. Point or degree in order of proceeding: as, in the first place; in the second place; in the last place.
20. n. In geometry See locus, 3.
21. n. Position; specifically, in astronomy, the bearing of a heavenly body at any instant: as, the moon's place (that is, its right ascension and declination, or direction otherwise specified).
22. n. Ground or occasion; room.
23. n. Position, in general.
24. n. Into occasion, opportunity, or use.
25. n. In geology, in its original position; not moved, especially by currents of water or by other erosive agencies, from its natural bed, or the place which it occupied when the deposit of which it constitutes a part was formed.
26. n. In presence; present.
27. n. To have actual existence.
28. n. To take precedence or priority. See def. 18.
29. n. To take effect; avail.
30. To put or set in a particular place or position.
31. To put or set in position or order; arrange; dispose.
32. To put in office or a position of authority; appoint; ordain to a charge.
33. To find a place, home, situation, etc., for; arrange for the residence, instruction, or employment of.
34. To put out at interest; invest: as, to place money in the funds.
35. To arrange or make provision for: as, to place a loan.
36. To set; base; put; repose: as, to place confidence in a friend.
37. Synonyms Set, Lay, etc. (see put), station, establish, deposit.
38. n. In mining, a drift driven at right angles to a wide lode to form the starting-place for a slide.
39. n. In sporting contests, the relative rank or success secured; specifically, that of the winner, the second, or the third.

Wiktionary

1. n. A location or position.
2. n. An open space, courtyard, market square.
3. n. A group of houses.
4. n. A region of a land.
5. n. Somewhere for a person to sit.
6. n. A frame of mind.
7. n. informal A house or home.
8. n. A role or purpose; a station.
9. n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
10. n. The position of a contestant in a competition.
11. n. The position as a member of a sports team.
12. v. transitive To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
13. v. intransitive To earn a given spot in a competition.
14. v. transitive To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
15. v. transitive, in the passive To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
16. v. transitive To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
17. v. transitive To arrange for or to make (a bet).
18. v. transitive To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
2. n. A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.
3. n. A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
4. n. Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
5. n. Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
6. n. A definite position or passage of a document.
7. n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
8. n. Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
9. n. (Astron.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
10. n. (Racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third.
11. v. To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate
12. v. To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life.
13. v. To put out at interest; to invest; to loan.
14. v. To set; to fix; to repose.
15. v. To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
16. v. (Racing) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially.
17. v. (Rugby Football) To place-kick ( a goal).
18. v. Colloq. U.S. to recognize or identify (a person).

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a general vicinity
2. n. the passage that is being read
3. n. an abstract mental location
4. n. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
5. n. an item on a list or in a sequence
6. v. assign to (a job or a home)
7. n. any area set aside for a particular purpose
8. v. assign to a station
9. v. recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
10. v. identify the location or place of
11. n. a job in an organization
12. v. sing a note with the correct pitch
13. v. put into a certain place or abstract location
14. n. a public square with room for pedestrians
15. n. proper or designated social situation
16. v. locate.
17. n. a particular situation
18. v. make an investment
19. n. proper or appropriate position or location
20. n. the particular portion of space occupied by something
21. v. assign a rank or rating to
22. v. intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
23. v. assign a location to
24. n. where you live at a particular time
25. n. a point located with respect to surface features of some region
26. v. place somebody in a particular situation or location
27. n. a blank area
28. v. finish second or better in a horse or dog race
29. v. to arrange for
30. n. a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
31. v. take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
32. v. estimate.