place

noun

1. (countable, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.

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

2. (countable, often, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.

   “They live at Westminster Place.”

3. (countable, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.
4. (countable, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.

   “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.”

5. (countable, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.

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

6. (countable, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.

   “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?”

7. (countable, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.

   “Which place hurts the most?”

8. (countable, euphemistic, physical, slang, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.

   “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.’”

9. (countable, obsolete, physical, uncountable)An area; somewhere within an area.
10. (countable, uncountable)A location or position in space.

    “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.”

11. (countable, uncountable)A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader

    “I lost my place when you interrupted me.”

12. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A passage or extract from a book or document.
13. (countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable)A topic.
14. (countable, uncountable)A state of mind.

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

15. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
16. (countable, uncountable)A responsibility or position in an organization.

    “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.”

17. (countable, uncountable)A responsibility or position in an organization.

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

18. (countable, uncountable)A responsibility or position in an organization.

    “to win a bet on a horse for place”

19. (countable, uncountable)A responsibility or position in an organization.

    “He lost his place in the national team.”

20. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
21. (countable, uncountable)Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

    “three decimal places;  the hundreds place”

22. (countable, uncountable)Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

    “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 […]”

23. (countable, uncountable)Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

    “My word hath no place in you.”

verb

1. (transitive)To put (someone or something) in a specific location.

   “He placed the glass on the table.”

   “to place someone on a pedestal”

   “His life vvas nigh vnto deaths dore yplaſte, / And thred-bare cote, and cobled ſhoes hee vvare, […]”

   “Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.”

   “Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.”

2. (ergative)To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

   “The Cowboys placed third in the league.”

   “Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.”

3. (ergative, intransitive)To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

   “In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.”

4. (transitive)To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

   “I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.”

5. (transitive)To vouch for someone's alibi.

   “The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.”

6. (transitive)To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
7. (transitive)To make.

   “We were all focused intently on the triangular conference call speaker in the middle of the table. President Trump's communications team was placing a call to President Volodymyr Zelenksy of Ukraine, and we were here to listen.”

   “to place a call”

   “to place an order”

   “to place an ad in the newspaper”

   “to place a bid”

8. (transitive)To bet.

   “I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.”

9. (transitive)To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.

   “They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.”

10. (transitive)To place-kick (a goal).
11. (transitive)To assign (more or less value) to something.

    “My workplace places a high premium on team spirit.”

    “She places little value on religion.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in the town of Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.