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Place

Definition: Place

Place

Noun

1. A point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic".

2. Any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House".

3. An abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups".

4. A general vicinity; "He comes from a place near Chicago".

5. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another: "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of".

6. A particular situation: "If you were in my place what would you do?".

7. Where you live; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?".

8. A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury".

9. The particular portion of space occupied by a physical object: "he put the lamp back in its place".

10. : proper or designated social situation: "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station".

11. : a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place".

12. : the passage that is being read; "he lost his place on the page".

13. : proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen".

14. : a public square with room for pedestrians; "they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place".

15. : an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position".

16. : a blank area; "write your name in the space provided".

Verb

1. Put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point".

2. Place somebody in a particular situation or location: "he was placed on probation".

3. Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?".

4. Assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles".

5. To arrange for; "place a phone call", "place a bet".

6. Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon".

7. Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself".

8. Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the "wanted" poster".

9. Assign to (a job or a home).

10. : locate; "The film is set in Africa".

11. : estimate: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.".

12. : identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection".

13. : make an investment; "Put money into bonds".

14. : assign to a station.

15. : finish second or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to place".

16. : sing a note with the correct pitch.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "place" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Place \Place\, noun. [French, from Latin platea a street, an area, a courtyard, from Greek platei^a a street, properly fem. of platy`s, flat, broad; akin to Sanskrit p[.r]thu, Lithuanian platus. Compare to Flawn, Piazza, Plate, Plaza.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Place

DomainDefinition

Computing

PLACE Programming Language for Automatic Checkout Equipment. ["The Compiler for the Programming Language for Automatic Checkout Equipment (PLACE)", AFAPL TR-68-27, Battelle Inst, Columbus, May 1968]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Census

A concentration of population either legally bounded as an incorporated place, or delineated for statistical purposes as a census designated place (in Puerto Rico, a comunidad or zona urbana). See census designated place, consolidated city, incorporated place, independent city, independent place. (references)

Mining

A. See:in situ b. The part of a mine in which a miner works by contract is known as his "place" or "working place."c. A point at which the cutting of coal is being carried on. (references)

Tips from 1870

Usage: Place. In the use of participles and of verbal nouns, the leading word in sense should always be made the leading word, and not the adjunct, in the construction.
"They did not give notice of the pupil leaving." Here, the leading idea is leaving. Pupil should, therefore, be subordinate by changing its form to the possessive; as, "They did not give notice of the pupil's leaving." Better still, "They did not give notice that the pupil had left." Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Toponym

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In geography, cartography, linguistics and grammar, a toponym is a place name, a geographical name, a proper name of locality, region, or some other part of Earth's surface or its natural or artificial feature. Toponymy is the taxonomic study of place names. See toponymy for a list of related articles.

In anatomy, toponym is a name of a region of the body, as distinguished from the name of an organ.

In biology, a toponym is a binomial name of a plant.

(Greek: τοπωνυμιος, toponymios| τοπος, topos, a place, locality + ονυμα, onyma, name, title).

See also -onym

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toponym."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Place

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

place

EnglishProgramming language for automatic checkout equipmentComputing, Language

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Place

Synonyms: berth (n), blank space (n), home (n), lieu (n), office (n), piazza (n), plaza (n), position (n), post (n), property (n), seat (n), shoes (n), situation (n), space (n), spot (n), station (n), stead (n), topographic point (n), aim (v), base (v), come in (v), come out (v), commit (v), direct (v), grade (v), identify (v), invest (v), lay (v), localise (v), localize (v), locate (v), order (v), point (v), pose (v), put (v), range (v), rank (v), rate (v), send (v), set (v), site (v), target (v). (additional references)
Antonym: divest (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Place

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.

Square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place, place, plaza.

Noun: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat,

House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple.

Arrangement

Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.

Business

Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking.

Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking.

Circumstance

Noun: circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status.

Order

Rank, place; (term).

Repute

Rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition.

Term

Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Place

English words defined with "place": at a lower place, at that placeBreathing place, Burial place, Burying placeDwelling placehiding place, High place, holy placeimaginary place, in a higher place, in place, in the first placejumping-off placelanding place, lurking placeMarket placenesting place, Normal placeOut of placeplace down, place mat, Place name, Place of arms, place of birth, place setting, polling place, pride of placeSacred place, Sticking placetake place, to a higher place, to a lower place, To give place, To have place, To take place, Trysting placeWatering place. (references)
Specialty definitions using "place": abnormal placebing placeCensus designated place, Central placegaseous place, geographically identified placeincorporated place, independent placeKiss the Place to make it Wellleading placepassing place, Place of Delivery, place of disembarkment from a road vehicle, place of embarkment on a railway vehicle, place of embarkment on a road vehicle, place of embarkment on an inland waterways transport vessel, place of embarkment on an IWT vessel, place of loading on a rail vehicle, place of loading on inland waterways transport vessel, place of loading on IWT vesselSkull, The place of a, special place, Special Place Advance Visit, Special Place Facility Questionnaire, Special Place Facility Questionnaire operationtaking-off placevalue of new construction put in placework put in place, working place. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Place" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (location, Piazza, place, Plaza, position, post, public square, room, seat, space, spot, Square, stead), Pidgin English (place), Romanian (it is pleasing).

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Modern Usage: Place

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's kind of like when you go on vacation: you plan everything out, but then one day you make a wrong turn, or take a detour, and you end up in some crazy place you can't even find on the map, doing something you never thought you'd do. Maybe you feel a little lost while it's happening, but later you realize it was the best part of the whole trip (Threesome; writing credit: Andrew Fleming.)

I could hardly find this place with a bloody map (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

I wonder if you understand that all of us-- Dolores, me, the children who survived, the children who didn't-- that we're all citizens of a different town now. A place with its own special rules and its own special laws (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

A place rich with all the strange beauty of your nighttime dreams (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

Some place warm, a place where the beer flows like wine, where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.)

Lyrics

We'll make heaven a place on earth (Heaven Is A Place On Earth; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

Anytime,and any place I don't care who's around (Any Time, Any Place; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Yo there ain't no place like home (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince)

Racin' the place, no time to waste (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

Ain't a woman alive that can take my momma's place (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

Clever

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it. (references; author: Bob Hope)

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Second place is the first loser. (references; author: unknown)

Wal-Mart isn't the only saving place! (references; author: unknown)

You always find something in the last place you look. (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Lonely Place (2003)

Place de la république (1974)

A Place Without Parents (1974)

Peyton Place Revisited (1973)

Grace's Place (1973)

Song Titles

Any Time, Any Place (performing artist: Janet Jackson)

I Know A Place (performing artist: Petula Clark)

I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (performing artist: Prince)

A PLACE IN THE SUN  (performing artist: Stevie Wonder )

Another Time, Another Place (performing artist: Wanna-Bees)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Place

DomainTitle

References

  • Childrens Place Retail Stores Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • First Place Financial Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Holmes Place PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Park Place Entertainment Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • St James's Place Capital plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A Place Called Wiregrass (reference)

  • A place called Baca (reference)

  • Isaac Backus, Puritan and Baptist: His Place in History, His Thought and Their Implications for Modern Baptist Theology (reference)

  • Saggy Baggy Elephant: No Place for Me (reference)

  • A Spirit Loose in the World: The Extraordinary Journey of a Beloved Benedictine Abbot in Search of Man's Place in the World and His Relationship Wit (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Pfaltzgraff Heritage 5-Piece Place Setting, Service for 1 (reference)

  • Pfaltzgraff April 5-Piece Place Setting, Service for 1 (reference)

  • Lenox Butler's Pantry "At Your Service" Place Card Holders (reference)

  • Bamboo Place Mats (Set of 4) (reference)

  • Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles Pink Dinnerware 5-Piece Place Setting (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Place

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Photo Album: Place

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Pictured is an experimental miniature pig. The experimental animal is being held in place by rubber-tube covered arms in a laboratory setting. Some cans are visible on shelves behind the animal. The miniature pig has an unusually thick placenta that prevents sow's immune system from influencing that of offspring. Raised in a sterile environment, such piglets are vital in providing clues as to how the immune system develops. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

An adult black man is pictured here alone. He was diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma in his upper left arm. Surgeons performed a new procedure implanting a metal rod in place of the cancerous bone. Since muscle and tendon were saved, he is able to use his left arm. Surgeons could attempt this daring new technique since the cancer had not spread. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Table showing AIDS Cases by Region and Size of Place of Residence Reported in 1996, United States. Credit: CDC.

Though a rare circumstance, Mycobacterium tuberculosis mother-to-child transmission can take place through the blood from different regions of the mother's body, or originating from lesions within the placenta as is the case here. Credit: CDC.

The Maryland Science Center's new Outer Space Place offers visitors a chance to explore the ... Credit: NASA.

Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft. The Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft were launched on 8 and 14 June 1975, respectively,to do the unprecedented: place a lander on the surface of Venus and return images.The two spacecraft successfully landed a descent craft on 16 and 23 October 1975.These images were obtained on 22 and 25 October 1975. Venera 9 landed on a slopeinclined by about 30 degrees to the horizontal whereas Venera 10 was only inclinedabout 8 degrees. The two spacecraft were separated by about 2100 km. Most of the rocks in the images are between about 0.3 and 1 meter. Credit: NASA.

Spanning the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula and most of Florida Bay, Everglades National Park is the only subtropical preserve in North America. It is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side. Credit: NASA.

Not a good place for claustrophobia Along the trail in Salmon River Canyon Reconnaissance party of Oscar Risvold. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Constructing a floating buoy signal Buoy in place For use by East Coast wiredrag party. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A female diamondback terrapin, probably looking for a good place to deposit her eggs. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Place
 

"A rock and a hard place" by Mike Ambrose
Commentary: "A delicate landing at a Positano, Italy hotel."
"Place of memory 3" by Krzysztof Baranski
Commentary: "Military cemetery."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Place".

PlayCaption
Man speaking "this is a good place to start" .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Place

AuthorQuotation

Abraham Cowley

His time is forever, everywhere his place.

Abraham Lincoln

When I had no place to go, I went to my knees.

Euripides

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Jean De La Fontaine

One returns to the place one came from.

Josh Billings

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Poem and The Cid

One would grow poor staying in one place always.

Samuel Johnson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Seneca

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

William Shakespeare

There's place and means for every man alive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Place

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

Common pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be held in some fixed place. (reference)

John Locke

1690

Barclay therefore, in another place, more coherently to himself, denies it to be lawful to resist a king in any case. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

Clause 4: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. (reference)

US Bill of Rights

1795

Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (reference)

Amendment to US Constitution

1795-2004

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

The manufacturing system took its place. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The place of meeting will be Washington. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

We welcome Russia to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. (reference)

John F. Kennedy

1961

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Place

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

It soon appeared that London was not the place for her.

Hunting of the Snark

Carroll, Lewis

Here the speaker sat down in his place, And directed the Judge to refer to his notes And briefly to sum up the case

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

I was bred in this place.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The (r)in pace took the place of the leather sack

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

This place is giving me the Fear

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

[Gives the warrant] When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

After a while the tenant who could not leave the place came out and squatted in the shade beside the tractor

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Place

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

They are in an unfamiliar place. (references)

BMT usually takes place in the hospital. (references)

Plague has a remarkable place in history. (references)

Business

Italy is in second place with 12 percent. (references)

Foreign companies could place ads in this publication. (references)

By 2000, the sedan is predicted to take over first place. (references)

Children

Switzerland

Experts have proposed making such acts punishable in Switzerland regardless of where the crime took place, but there was no legislative action on the problem during the year. (references)

Lithuania

Legal provisions for access to buildings for the disabled are in place but are not enforced widely; the vast majority of public buildings remain inaccessible. (references)

Morocco

While any child, regardless of parentage, may be registered within a month of birth, a court order is required if registration does not take place in that time. (references)

Civil Liberties

Czech Republic

On May 22, eight persons were charged in connection with a skinhead concert that took place in April. (references)

Cuba

In order for a religious visit to take place, the prisoner must submit a written request, and the prison director must approve it. Elias Biscet was visited by a Catholic priest twice during the year. (references)

Cuba

The Christmas procession took place in December. (references)

Discrimination

Kazakhstan

No one may be subjected to any discrimination for reasons of origin, social position, occupation, property status, sex, race, nationality, language, attitude to religion, convictions, place of residence, or any other circumstances;" however, the Government does not enforce this provision effectively on a consistent basis. (references)

Zambia

Constitutional amendments barring native-born citizens of partial or full foreign ancestry from the presidency appear to violate the prohibition on discrimination based on place of origin. (references)

Oman

The 1996 Basic Charter prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, ethnic origin, race, religion, language, sect, place of residence, and social class; however, decrees to implement its provisions have not been promulgated. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

The firm's name should either be in Dutch, or if in another language, include some additional name such as Nederland, Holland, or the place of establishment of the company. (references)

Norway

A welfare system, which re-distributes income via taxes, remains firmly in place, and the GON puts a premium on containing unemployment and maintaining economic opportunities in outlying areas. (references)

Sweden

Finally, Sweden is a great place for Americans to do business. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

Judges have the discretion to permit "substitute measures," such as house arrest, in place of bail for most crimes. (references)

Pakistan

Qisas is not known to have been invoked; however, Diyat occasionally is applied, particularly in the NWFP, in place of judicial punishment of the wrongdoer. (references)

Pakistan

No one claimed responsibility for any of these acts; such bombings have taken place for many years. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

The Minister of Defense denied the allegations, stating that any sexual relations that took place were consensual in nature, and usually involved soldiers of indigenous origin. (references)

Sweden

The country counts at least 17,000 Sami (formerly known as Lapps) in its population (Sami organizations place that number somewhat higher at 25,000 to 30,000). In 1993 the Government allowed the formation of a Sametinget (Sami Parliament) as an advisory body to the Government. (references)

Argentina

To clarify the discrepancy, the national census scheduled to take place in 2000 was to have collected information about indigenous identity for the first time; however, funding shortfalls required the Federal Government to postpone the census until mid-November, with results expected in 2002. Existing census data show that poverty rates are higher than average in areas with large indigenous populations. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

Most complaints concerned the labor market, including denial of promotion, discrimination in the work place, unequal pay, and dismissal. (references)

Korea

Except in cases of naturalization, citizenship is based on parentage, not place of birth, and persons must show their family genealogy as proof of citizenship. (references)

Macau

Although Portuguese officials no longer dominate the civil service, the governmental and legal systems place a premium on knowledge of the Portuguese language, which is spoken by less than 4 percent of the population. (references)

Political Economy

HUNGARY

The crawling peg, in place since 1995, coupled with liberalization and prudent fiscal and monetary policy helped slow average annual inflation from 28.3 percent in 1995 to 9.8 percent in 2000. The strengthening of forint in 2001 is expected to further reduce inflation in 2001 and 2002. (references)

INDONESIA

Even with new laws in place, however, inadequate enforcement and a corrupt judicial system pose daunting problems for U.S. companies seeking enforcement of their rights in Indonesia. (references)

SPAIN

It includes provisions that allow for unannounced searches in civil lawsuits and searches to take place under these provisions. (references)

Political Rights

Tajikistan

On May 27, Parliamentary by-elections took place in three districts: The city of Dushanbe and the regions of Khatalon and Sughd. (references)

Moldova

Debate takes place in either the Moldovan/Romanian or Russian language, with translation provided. (references)

Yemen

An extensive cabinet change in April expanded the Cabinet from 24 to 35 ministers, restructured existing ministries, and created several new ministries to place greater emphasis on important national issues, such as population, the environment, and human rights. (references)

Trade

Cote D'ivoire

Monetary cooperation already takes place under French Franc zone arrangements, with a common central bank, the BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States), located in Dakar. (references)

India

The following significant changes have taken place in the banking sector in recent years: the entry of new private banks (25 new private sector banks between 1994 and 2000) and foreign banks (21 between 1994 and 1999); the easing of restrictions on foreign banks; the phasing-out of consortium project lending led by development finance institutions; the granting of permission for bank syndicates; the phasing-out of restrictions on the freedom of clients to switch banking relationships; and the elimination of RBI approval for lending to large companies. (references)

Botswana

Changes taking place under the WTO and the various rounds of international trade negotiations will have a major impact in the areas of trade in agricultural products and textiles, which have hitherto been subject to various protection agreements. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

Effort should be spent on introducing yourself, your company and objectives in the Vietnamese market place. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Family members of those working are not required by law to surrender their passports, though they often do. Residents carry a Saudi residence permit (Iqama) for identification in place of their passports. (references)

Azerbaijan

As of September 2001, there is no U.S. State Department travel advisory in place for Azerbaijan, however worldwide announcements for US citizens to exercise caution overseas are just as applicable in Azerbaijan as in other countries. (references)

Women

Morocco

In her article, published after the Green March holiday, she noted that she was 1 of 35,000 females who actually took place in the Green March in 1975, when 10 percent of the 350,000 positions were reserved for women under a quota system in place for the event. (references)

United Arab Emirates

In the event that a court sentences a woman to prison for such an offense, local authorities, at the request of the prisoner, may hold the newborn children in a special area within the confines of the prison or place them with a relative. (references)

Saint Lucia

The Domestic Violence Act allows a judge to issue a protection order prohibiting an abuser from entering or remaining in the place where the victim is. It also allows the judge to order that an abuser's name be removed from housing leases or rental agreements, with the effect that the abuser would no longer have the right to live in the same residence as the victim. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

Collective bargaining is legal and may take place in firms in which a union has gained the support of an absolute majority of the workers. (references)

Ethiopia

The law explicitly gives workers the right to strike to protect their interests, but it also sets forth restrictive procedures that apply before a legal strike may take place. (references)

Estonia

No strikes took place during the year. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Place

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Cast of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"

This friend wondered if you're not doing anything, you know, Saturday night, if you would like to have dinner. At her place.

Cindy Adams

Sure it is because every place you go, you go to downtown Poughkeepsie, you got somebody talking jams and jellies and gossip. Gossip is in every magazine every place.

Joe Esposito

Graceland. Place he always to bought it for his mother. That was very important to him. Beautiful place. Nice place. He loved being there.

Karl Lagerfeld

Several things. First, don't forget Germany after the war was not the most exciting place. I didn't even know that one could make a living in fashion.

Mattie Stepanek

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

Nellie Connally

I've been to that museum thing one time. I went back one time when they put a memorial plaque on the place where it all happened. And that's all.

Rush Limbaugh

Provisions were put in place to deal with slavery!

Sela Ward

That's true and you really can't go home in the same way. The place is not the same. It's changed. You've changed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Place

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Besides this, such repeated changes take place, that all arrangement is set at nought, and the constant fluctuation of things, deranges every plan, as fast as adopted.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Some contraventions of right have already taken place, both within our jurisdictional limits and on the high seas.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to 'saving' the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to 'destroy' it without war--seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Returning veterans often cannot find a satisfactory place for their families to live, and many who buy have to pay exorbitant prices.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Standing in this same place a third of a century ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a Nation ravaged by depression and gripped in fear.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Common sense tells us this is the place to look for more jobs and to find them faster.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989When one Ranger fell, another would take his place.

George Bush

1989-1993We all have a special place in our hearts for the families of men and women serving in the Gulf.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001America is far more than a place.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Investors from around the world know America is the safest place to put their money.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Place

"Place" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.73% of the time. "Place" is used about 43,643 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)89.73%39,159209
Lexical Verb (infinitive)4.32%1,8854,533
Lexical Verb (base form)3.42%1,4925,454
Noun (proper)2.53%1,1046,853
                    Total100.00%43,643N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Place

The following table summarizes the usage of "place" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PlaceLast name3,0004,438
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Place

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "place".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
BamahN/ABiblical

An eminence or high place

BochimN/ABiblical

The place of weeping

CalvaryN/ABiblical

The place of a skull

EnamN/ABiblical

Open place

GadarenesN/ABiblical

A place surrounded or walled

JashubN/ABiblical

A dwelling place

MaonN/ABiblical

Place of sin

MelzarN/ABiblical

Circumcision of a narrow place

ZophimN/ABiblical

Place for a watchman

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Place

CountryNameCountryName
United Kingdom

Holmes Place PLC

USA

Childrens Place Retail Stores Inc

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Place

Expressions using "place": abiding place about the place abrupt place adverb of place all over the place any place arrive at a place at a lower place at his place at that place at your place baiting place ballot for a place bare place be between a rock and a hard place be carried from one place to another be in a tight place be in place be in the second place be out of place be settled in a place birth place body of the place Breathing place breeding place burial place Burying place Carle Place Carrying place census designated place change one's place change place click into place closed place college Place coming from the same place common place commun place critical place first crossing place desolate place drinking place dweling place Dwelling place eating place Elmwood Place employed persons by place of residence every place exposed place Face of a place fail place fall into a place fall into place fire place first place force out of its place force out of smb.'s place forget one's place forming up place free place frequented place from any place from place to place from this place gathering place geographically identified place get a place give place to Grove Place halting place hang up in the wrong place he doesn't know his place Heliocentric place hiding place high place hold a high place hold a place hold in place holy place if i were in your place imaginary place in a higher place in another place in first place in its place in place in place of in some place in that place in the first place in the fourth place in the next place in the place of in the same place in the second place in the third place in the thirteenth place in the wrong place in third place in this place incorporated place. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "place": place-based, place-between, place-by-place, place-deictic, place-free, place-holder, place-holders, Place-kick, Place-kicker, place-kicking, place-kicks, place-maker, place-marking, place-mat, place-mats, place-men, place-name, place-names, place-orientated, Place-proud, place-related, place-setting, place-specific, place-the, place-to-place, place-total, place-worship.

Ending with "place": birth-place, clean-in-place, common-place, feeding-place, fire-place, hiding-place, landing-place, meeting-place, out-of-place, resting-place, single-place, stopping-place, third-place, two-place, watering-place, work-place.

Containing "place": holy-place-from-over-the-great-water.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Place

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sesame place

2,976

pike place market

276

child place

1,383

pixies place

265

best place to live

1,299

one hanes place

259

melrose place

1,255

park place entertainment

253

the child place

1,006

patch place

249

ontario place

909

park place

239

secret place

903

amusement place

226

place

677

sutton place hotel

213

haunted place

538

sesame street place

211

dawn place

510

place to download music

206

best place retire

435

wedding place card

203

trading place

425

place card holder

194

place card

369

my favorite place

194

going place

326

historical place

191

fire place

322

place to stay

185

model one place

320

arts des place

182

mccormick place

287

sutton place

173

providence place mall

284

national register of historic place

168

meeting place

280

america best in live magazine money place

153

freds place

278

network place

153
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Place

Language Translations for "place"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

sit (lay down, put, put down, sit, to put), plek (location, spot), plaas (estate, farm, lay down, locate, property, put, put down, ranch), adapteer (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, put, tune), aanpas (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, put, try, try on, tune). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

pozitë shoqërore (condition, walks of life), përcaktoj qartë, porosis (bespeak, caution, charge, command, commission, indent, order, prescribe, request), porosit (bespeak, caution, charge, command, commission, indent, order, prescribe, request), adaptoj (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, tune), arësye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, plea, reason, sense, spring, why), arsye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, plea, reason, sense, spring, why), banesë (abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, home, house, inhabitation, living quarters, lodging, quarters, residence, shebang), caktoj në një punë, detyrë (assignation, assignment, burden, business, chore, devoir, duty, exercise, job, labor, labour, mission, obligation, office, ought, project, seal, task, task-work, tie, trust), i gjej vend, karrige (chair, seat), krahinë (country, district, neck, province, region, shedding), nëpunësi (employ, employment, office, post, white collar), qytet (Burg, city, town), vendbanim (abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, locality, plantation, residence, settlement), vë në rregull (arrange, fix up, methodize, sort out, Square), vend (clime, country, course, diggings, ground, job, land, location, locus, nation, native land, neck, part, point, position, post, receptacle, region, room, seat, space, spot, station, stead, terrain, territory), vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), radhë (batch, consecution, cue, file, inning, innings, play, queue, range, rank, row, run, series, tier, turn), rang (ladder, position, standing, state), rast (case, chance, circumstance, event, handle, happening, instance, matter, occasion, piece, possibility, scope), shesh (circus, course, court, esplanade, field, ground, platform, Square, table), shtëpi (abode, chalet, fire side, habitation, hearth, hearthstone, home, house, household, property, residence, roof, shebang), sistemoj (collate, dispose, house, organize, regulate, settle, shelve, systematize), (apply, attach, contract, deposit, direct, establish, get in, get on, impose, inflict, instal, install, instate, lay, lay down, locate, mislay, plant, pull on, put, set, settle, shut, stand, station, stick, Stow), vendit (seat). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏إستثمر (develop, exploit, invest, mine, monopolize, operation, plough), ‏خانة (column), ‏صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), ‏طبقة (category, classification, coat, course, deposit, layer, order, rank, strata, stratum, streak, tone), ‏طلب (appeal, application, ask, call, call for, demand, desire, instance, memorial, ordain, order, quest, reclaim, request, require, requisition, rush order, seek, tune), ‏عمل (act, action, aggravation, berth, business, deed, elaborate, employment, engagement, fag, feat, function, gird on, job, labor, labour, making, occupation, pursuit, racket, see, situation, task, work), ‏عين شخصا في وظيفة, ‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), ‏تصنيف (assortment, breed, classification, compilation, digestion, distribution, ranking, rating, sorting, standing, table), ‏حدث (befall, calamity, come, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster), ‏دور (age, circle, cycle, floor, function, part, refrain, role, round, say, storey, turn), ‏وظيفة (berth, billet, capacity, frame, function, job, khanate, metier, office, position, role, service), ‏يوجد عملا ل, ‏وقع (be located, befall, come, come off, drop, dwell, fall, ground smb., happen, land, locate, position, rhythm, run, set one's hand to, sign, sign up, site, strike, subscribe, supervene, take place, tumble, underwrite), ‏محل (site, spot), ‏موضع (locale, locality, locus, object, objectify, position, seat, site, situation, spot), ‏موقع (locale, locality, location, point, position, post, rhythmic, scene, site, situation, spot, subscriber), ‏منزل (apartment, domicile, dwelling, flat, home, house, residence), ‏مهمة (assignment, business, charge, commission, designation, duty, errand, function, job, mission, office, stint, task, undertaking, work), ‏مكان (area, locale, locality, locus, position, room, seat, site, space, spot, venue), ‏مكان ما (some place, somewhere), ‏ميدان (arena, domain, field, line, province, sphere, square), ‏ميز شخصا, ‏فاز بمرتبة مرموقة, ‏حالة (case, circumstance, condition, conjuncture, drama, estate, event, feather, fettle, incident, job, manner, nick, occurrence, phase, picture, plight, pose, position, posture, rate, shape, situation, state, status, trim, way, weather, whack). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

подходящо време (season), знак (badge, check, denotation, ensign, indication, parallel, patent, peg, seal, sign, signal, symptom, type, vestige), заведение (establishment, institution, premises, shop), задължение (bond, call, char, charge, commitment, committal, duty, engagement, guaranty, job, liability, obligation, office, onus, recognizance, responsibility, tie), жилище (abode, dwelling, dwelling place, habitation, home, house, housing, inhabitation, lodging, quarters, residence, shebang, shop), право (authorization, claim, clean, directly, due, fair, flush, jurisprudence, jus, law, perquisite, pretension, right, slap, smack, spang, straight, straightway, upright), поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, lay, pass, pitch, pose, posit, position, produce, put, put on, put up, set, set up, shrink on, site, situate, stage), помествам (budge, insert, move, move aside, publish, shift), длъжност (appointment, office, position, post, situation), полагам (lay, put, put forth, put out, replace, repose, rest, run), намирам място за, подходящо място (niche), подходящ момент (season), пасаж (alley, alleyway, passage, passageway, run, school, way through), площад (circus), пласирам (dispose of, market, sell, trade off), инвестирам (invest), имение (domain, estate, hacienda, holding, land, property, seat), дом (abode, dwelling, hearth, home, homestead, house, inn), положение (aspect, capacity, circumstance, fettle, footing, juncture, lay, placement, plight, point, position, posture, provision, set, set up, siege, situation, standing, state, train, way), влагам (consign, deposit, invest, project, put in, put out), село (country, dorp, settlement, village), селище (habitation, settlement), служба (body, duty, employment, function, job, office, position, post, room, service, situation), слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay, lay down, pass, pitch, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick, stick down, vat), спомням си (call up, recall, recollect, remember), ранг (grade, order, precedence, rank, rating, siege, state, status), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), квартира (accommodation, bed, diggings, digs, housing, lodgement, lodgings, lodgment, pad, quarterage, quarters, rooms, tenement), място (collocation, elbow room, ground, locale, locality, location, locus, point, position, post, room, seat, site, space, spot, stand, station, stead), град (storm, township, volley), назначавам (constitute, designate, institute, make, name, nominate, prefer, put in, set), определям какъв е, определям времето на, определям мястото на, определям местоположението на, настанявам (accommodate, collocate, encamp, establish, fix up, induct, instal, install, put up, set, set up, settle, station), намествам (butt, edge, set), намирам място на, улица (drag, gutter, road, row, st.), класирам (size). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

ficar (lay down, put, put down). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

地方 (area, local). (various references)

   

Croatian

  

mjesto (place seat), mjesta (place seat). (various references)

   

Czech

  

místo (accommodation, appointment, instead of, job, locus, part, post, room, situation, space, spot, stand, standing, venue). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sted (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, location, residence, spot), plads (location, place to sit, plaza, public square, seat, spot, square), stille (lay down, put, put down), sætte (lay down, put, put down), lægge (lay, lay down, put, put down). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

plaats (city, court, courtyard, function, job, location, office, place to sit, post, seat, spot, town, village, yard), plek (blot, spot), oord (location, spot), lokaal (chamber, local, room). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

meti (lay down, put, put down), loko (location, spot), loki (locate), ejo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

stað (location, site, spot), seta (invest, lay down, put, put down, typeset), leggja (lay, lay down, put, put down), laga til (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, tune), koyra (lay down, put, put down). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فضا (Area, Region, Room, Space), میدان (Aim, Ground, Plaza, Purview, Ring, Scope, Square), مکان (Locality, Location, Locus, Part, Site, Spot, Stead), محل (Locale, Locality, Location, Room, Site, Situation, Spot, Stead), مرتبه (Order, Sphere, Stair), گذاشتن (Attach, Cut, Deposit, Have, Infiltrate, Leave, Let, Lodge, Shunt, Stead), وهله (Heat, Instance, Occasion, Onset, Stage), صندلی (Chair, Seat, Stall), جایگاه (House, Seat, Station), جای دادن (Implant), جا (Berth, Case, Emplacement, House, Lieu, Locality, Location, Lodge, Receptacle, Room, Seat, Site, Situation, Socket, Space, Station, Stead, Vacancy, Vacantness), درمحلی گذاردن (Situate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

paikka (job, locality, location, patch, point, position, post, room, seat, site, situation, spot), panna (ban, cause, excommunication, get, lay, lay down, make, put, put down, set). (various references)

   

Flemish

  

markt. (various references)

   

French

  

endroit, lieu, situer (cause to take place), poser, placer, place (plaza), mettre (plant). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

pleatse (lay down, put, put down), plak (location, spot), stelle (lay down, put, put down), stee (location, spot), oanpasse (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, tune), oanbringe (accommodate, accuse, adapt, adjust, attune, bring, denounce, fetch, fit, fix, give an account, mount, recruit, report, tune), lizze (lay, lay down, lie, put, put down, recline, to lie), ôfstimme (accommodate, adapt, adhere, adjust, attune, conform, fit, fix, mount, reject, tune). (various references)

   

German

  

stellen (adjust, arrange, base, be sticking, catch, lay down, locate, locations, placement, pose, provide, put, put back, put down, put in, set, settle, sit, stand, steads, to flaunt, to put), Stätte (location, site, spot), Platz (accommodation, center, centre, cirrus, course, court, field, green, links, location, pew, Piazza, pitch, plaza, position, public square, room, seat, site, space, spot, square, stand, station, town, yard), Ort (city, coal face, locale, locality, location, locus, position, spot, town, village), unterbringen (accommodate, bestow, fit in, fix up, get in, house, Lodge, put, put up, quarter, settle, situate, to host, to house), Stelle (authority, digit, figure, job, location, locations, locus, office, passage, patch, point, position, quarter, reference, site, spot, stead), setzen (assume, back, bed, bet, build, compose, cross, erect, gamble, lay, lay down, move, picked, placement, plant, posit, put, put back, put down, seat, seed, set, setting, ship, sit, typeset), legen (bring down, fold, lay, lay down, lead, locate, placement, plant, put, put back, put down, put in, recline, set, settle, site, siting, situate, to lay, to recline), Fleck (bit, blaze, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, fleck, location, lump, Mark, patch, piece, smudge, speck, splash, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, star). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τόπος (locus, site), τοποθετώ (collocate, fit, install, instate, invest, lay, locate, pose, posit, position, post, put, set, set up, station). (various references)

   

Guarani

  

renda. (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

adaptoj (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, tune). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מקום (abode, locality, location, premises, site, situation, spot, stead, whereabouts), למקם (localise, localize, locate, site, situate, spot), ליטול (lift up, put, take), לשים (brand, deposit, lay, lay down, put, put down, set), לאתר (fix, localise, localize, locate), לזהות (identify, recognize, spot), להעמיד (rear, set, stand), להציב (dispose, post, rear, set, set up, spot, stand), תפקיד (assignment, charge, command, duty, function, mission, order, part, role, stint, task), אתר (locality, location, site), הניח (put, suppose). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tér (carfax, clearance, field, ground, plaza, public square, range, room, scope, space, square, stretch), hely (beehive, berth, boonies, chair, enclosure, hick, houseroom, locality, location, loco, room, shrine, site, space, spot, stance, stead, test hole), állás (berth, chair, duty, job, niche, occupation, placement, pos, position, post, stagnancy, stagnation, stall, stance, stand, station), teríték (cover, place setting, table ware), terület (area, bailiwick, bawn, building site, countryside, district, domain, ground, grounds, land, location, mop-up, province, region, reservation, scope, sphere, terrain, territory, zone), rang (dignity, estate, grade, order, rank, ranking, rate, station, station in life, title), passzus, otthon (at home, fireside, hearth, home, hostel, in doors, indoors, to keep within doors, to stick indoors), megillető hely, lakás (apartment, chambers, domicile, dwelling, flat, habitation, houseful, housing, living quarters, lodging, pigsty, quarters, residence, rooms, shop), helység (locality), helyezés (elevation, proclamation, putting, setting), ház (home, house, housing, shell, the ceiling fell about our ears). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

setja (lay down, put, put down), leggja (lay, lay down, put, put down), aðlagast (accommodate, accomodate oneself, adapt, adapt oneself, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, tune). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tempat (berth, holder, location, site, space), bagian (allotment, division, lot, offshoot, part, portion, proportion, section, segment, share). (various references)

   

Irish

  

áit. (various references)

   

Italian

  

mettere (cause, charge, get, install, lay down, locate, plant, pop, put, put down, put in, put on, set, set up, situate, stand, take, to put, tuck, wear), luogo (area, country, district, ground, lieu, locality, location, passage, position, scene, site, space, spot, stead, terrain), posto (job, located, position, post, ranking, right, room, seat, site, situated, situation, space, spot, stand, station, stead), ponere (lay down, put, put down), aggiustare (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, come out right, doctor, fit, fix, make do, mend, mount, overhaul, patch, put, repair, to fix, trim, tune), adattare (accommodate, adapt, adapt oneself, adjust, arrange, attune, be suitable, conform, fit, fit oneself, fix, key, mount, put, shape, suit, tune). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

, 場所 (location). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

プレース , ばしょ (location), (field), かしょ (book of poems, letter from home, part, passage, point), いち (fair, location, market, one, position, situation), よち (earth, foreknowledge, foresight, intimation, margin, prediction, premonition, room, scope, world), とう (and the like, be frozen over, building, cane, child, congeal, counter for large animals, engraving tool, et cetera, etc., foolishness, freeze, ground spider, knife, pagoda, party, rattan, saber, section, servant, sickle, steal, sugar, sword, T'ang-Dynasty, to accuse, to ask, to charge, to question, tower, without regard to), ところ. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

장소. (various references)

   

Luganda

  

ekifo. (various references)

   

Malagasy

  

toerana. (various references)

   

Malay

  

gereja (church, church-building, house of worship, place of worship). (various references)

   

Manx

  

soiaghey (beset, determine, fix, implant, incursion, installation, let, letting, mounting, pitch, plant, posture, repose, seat, set, set up, setting, settle, situate, situation, station, synchronize), cur (communicate, consign, give, lay, lead, put, render, site), boayl (centre, indentation, location, scene, spot, stand, where). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

plass (ground, location, plaza, public square, spot, square). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

pone (lay down, put, put down), logá (location, spot), buta (lay down, put, put down), adaptá (accommodate, adapt, adjust, apply, attune, fit, fix, mount, practice, tune). (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

place. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aceplay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

miejscowość (location, spot), miejsce (location, spot), lokal, kłaść (lay down, put, put down). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lugar (emplacement, first of all, function, job, lieu, location, place to sit, position, post, pound, room, seat, site, spot, stead, thorp, where), sítio (croft, flag-station, location, siege, site, spot, station), local (local, location, locus, premise, premises, regional, sectional, site, spot), colocar (bestow, clap, collocate, dispose, lay, lay down, locate, pitch, placatory, plant, pose, posit, post, put, put down, set, ship, stick), pôr (affix, don, lay, lay down, placatory, pose, posit, put, put down, seat, set, shove, stick, to put), meter (incase, insert, lay down, mix up, put, put down, put in, slip, stick, stuff, to put, tuck). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

lugar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pune (add, adhibit, annex, append, apply, attach, bet on, cause, deposit, do, Don, draw, dress, enclose, hang, impose, lay, lay down, lay on, lay up, Mount, pose, position, propose, put, put down, put in, put on, put up, repose, set, sow, stick), plasa (fix, get in, interpose, invest, lay, lay down, Lodge, position, post, put, put down, site, situate, station), loc (accommodation, billet, blank, corner, estate, field, job, lieu, locality, location, locus, point, position, post, quarter, region, room, seat, site, spot, stand, standing, station, stead, where), aşeza (arrange, bed, beset, bestow, build, collocate, dispose, encase, establish, fall, fix, impose, lay, lay down, position, put, put down, put on, repose, seat, set, settle, situate, stack, stand, stick, Stow, subside). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

место (betting shop, clubland, fernery, location, point, position, room, seat, site, space, spot, stand, station, stead). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

àite (a place, location, spot), cuir (lay : cuir an aghaidh, lay down, oppose, plant, put, put down, See <A HREF="mf02.html#car">car</A>, send, sow, transmit). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plasirati (invest), polagati (lay, repose, string, take), poprište (battlefield, plain), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), razmestiti (arrange, quarter), mesto (locale, location, locus, position, post, space, spot, station, stead), metnuti (impose, perch, put, stow), namestiti (fix, focus, furnish, lay, pose, posit, reduce, rig, set right, tune in), locirati (find, locate), rasporediti (arrange, cast, collocate, dispose), trg (piazza, plaza, square), sedište (seat), situirati (situate), smestiti (accommodate, ensconce oneself, establish, house, locate, lodge, put, seat, silo, station, stow), spremati (prepare), stan (apartment, diggings, housing, lodging, pad, residence, rooms), staviti (apply, bring up, input, insert, lay, park, pop, posit, put, put on, set), stavljati (put), svrstati (align, assort, classify, line up, match, rank), raspodeliti (distribute). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sitio (installation, investment, lieu, locale, location, position, room, seat, siege, site, space, spot, website), meter (cause, dip, enclose, engage, Fay, inclose, insert, introduce, intrude, involve, jug, jump on, key, lay down, Lodge, log in, make, poke, put, put down, shove, sink, Stow, telescope, throw about, throw away, throw on, thrust, tuck in, turf out, yank off), lugar (account, disposal, hostel, inducement, investment, lieu, locale, locus, motive, occasion, point, reason, room, scene, site, space, spot, stead, village), poner (add, adjust, affix, alight, append, arrange, attach, bet, call, clap, connect, contribute, deposit, do, dress, drop, encase, enclose, entangle, expend, fasten, get down, get on, give, give in, impawn, impose, inclose, insert, instal, install, invest, job, jug, kick out, land, lay, lay down, light, make, open, perform, play back, pose, post, provoke, put, put down, put into, put on, put out, put through, put up, raise, read, send, set, set up, slip on, stake, stand, start, stick, stick down, Stow, suppose, switch on, tag on, take, take along, throw in, translate, turn on, wear), colocar (adjust, bestow, collocate, dispose, embattle, employ, enrol, go in, install, invest, lay, lay down, locate, Lodge, marry off, perch, pitch, plant, play, posit, position, put, put down, put up, seat, set, set up, settle, situate, stand, station, Stow, tune). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

presi (location, spot), poti (lay down, miserable, poor, put, put down), seti (lay down, put, put down). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

mahali (plaza, public square, square). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

plats (area, capacity, employment, field, ground, houseroom, locale, locality, location, locus, lot, position, post, room, seat, site, situation, stand, station), sätta (compose, lay, lay down, Park, put, put down, score, seat, set, settle, wager), ort (heading, locality, location, parts, spot), ställa (fix, lay down, plant, put, put down, set, stand), placera (deposit, drape, fix, invest, Lodge, Mount, Park, perch, plant, posit, position, put, seat, set, settle, sit, site, situate), lägga (fix, lay, lay down, Lodge, put, put down, rest, set, settle, situate), anbringa (apply, fit, fix, Mount, put, situate). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

ilagáy (lay down, put, put down). (various references)

   

Tahitian

  

v‘hi. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สถานที่นัดพบ (meeting place, rendezvous). (various references)

   

Tswana

  

motse (town). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıra (alignment, arrangement, array, bench, desk, file, form, linage, line, occasion, order, ordinal, progression, queue, range, rank, row, sequence, series, settle, slot, spell, succession, tier, train, turn), basamak (column, digit, echelon, footstep, grade, ladder, order, pitch, rung, scale, stair, step, tread, tread board), ev (accommodation unit, crib, domestic, domicil, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, habitation, hangout, home, house, household, housing, inhabitation, residence, rooms, settlement), görevlendirmek (commission, deploy, draft, draught, draw out, elect, employ, entrust, give work, instruct, post, set on, station), hane (digit, dwelling, house, order), (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), koymak (closure, dot smb. one, lay, lay down, lay on, Park, plant, position, put, put down, rest, set, set down, stick, sting), mahal (locale, locus, occasion), makam (chair, modal, mode, office, quarter, station, strain, tune), mekân (hangout, locality, site, space), ısmarlamak (bespeak, commission, give an order, have it made, order, place an order, send away for, stand, stand treat, treat, treat smb. to smth.), oturtmak (clap, embed, fit, gear, indwell, Mount, reset, seat, set, sit, sit down, site, slot), yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), sorumluluk (accountability, baby, blame, buck, burden, charge, control, custody, encumbrance, engagement, liability, load, office, onus, pidgin, responsibility, trust), statü (position, statue, status, statute), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), yatırım yapmak (fund, invest, invest in, put), yatırmak (bed, credit, deposit, embark, fund, incline, instate, invest, lay down, lay low, pay into, put to bed, put to sleep, repose, repose on, shelter, sink, subscribe), yazdırmak (indite, reduce to writing, register), yer (earth, footing, geo-, Glebe, ground, ground-, locale, locality, location, locus, mother earth, pew, position, post, premises, quarter, room, seat, site, situation, situs, slot, space, spot, stand, standing, station, stead, terrain, terraneous, ubiety, where, whereabouts), yerini belirlemek (localize, pinpoint, plot, position, situate), yerleşim yeri (settlement, site), mevki (class, condition, lay, location, position, promotion, seat, site, situation, standing, state, station, status, ubiety). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

punkt (r) (point, station), tarap (direction, land), orun, ьndemek (put, set), яerleюdirme, яer (earth, land). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ставити (ante, plank, posit, position, post, produce, put, set, set out, set up, stage, stagemanage, stand), класти (lay, lay down, put, set down), вміщувати (hold), визначати місце, місце (appointment, lieu, office, placing, point, position, room, seat, situation, spot, station), місто (city, town), простір (amplitude, area, elbow room, expanse, expansion, region, space, stretch, vast), посада (appointment, assignment, berth, billet, capacity, incumbency, office, position, post, seat, work). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hạng đoạn sách, địa vị (better, bettor, dominance, status, tenable), được cử hành được tổ chức, đoạn bài nói quảng trường, cấp bậc, chỗ (locality, point, site, theatre), chỗ đứng, chỗ ngồi, địa điểm (point, where), chỗ thích hợp chỗ làm nhiệm vụ, vị trí (level, localizable, position, situation), không thích hợp xảy ra, nơi (locality, quarter, site), nơi ở (accommodation unit, dwelling-place), tỉnh (conscious), thứ bậc (hierachy), thay cho, thay thế vào có vẻ lúng túng không đúng chỗ, chỗ thích đáng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

lle (accommodation, location, room, space, spot). (various references)

   

Xhosa

  

yindawo (Is a place). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

banda (location, spot). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

indawo (chamber, location, room, spot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Place

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

2. se, ki. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

addo, ager, alias, aliunde, anteposita, antepositum, circumda, circumdabat, circumdabis, circumdabisque, circumdabit, circumdabo, circumdabor, circumdabunt, circumdamus, circumdans, circumdant, circumdantes, circumdantibus, circumdantis, circumdantium, circumdaretur, circumdari, circumdat, circumdata, circumdate, circumdati, circumdatis, circumdato, circumdatur, circumdatus, circumdederant, circumdederat, circumdederis, circumdederunt, circumdedi, circumdedissent, circumdedisti, circumdedit, circumdeditque, circumdem, circumdent, circumdet, condo, coniuncta, coniunctae, coniuncti, coniunctus, coniungantur, coniungat, coniungere, coniungeretur, coniungetis, coniungi, coniungit, coniungitis, coniungitur, coniunxerant, coniunxerunt, coniunximus, coniunxit, coniunxitque, constituam, constituamus, constituantur, constituas, constituat, constitue, constituebant, constituebat, constituemus, constituendum, constituens, constituent, constituentur, constituerat, constituere, constituerem, constituerent, constitueret, constituerim, constitueris, constituerit, constituerunt, constitueruntque, constitues, constituesque, constituet, constituetur, constitui, constituimus, constituissent, constituisset, constituisti, constituistis, constituit, constituite, constituitque, constituitur, constituo, constituta, constitutae, constituti, constitutis, constitutum, constitutus, constituunt, deponam, depone, deponebamus, deponendum, deponens, deponent, deponentes, deponere, deponerent, deponeretur, deponet, deponite, deposita, depositis, depositoque, depositos, depositum, depositumque, deposuerant, deposuerunt, deposuisti, deposuit, loca, locabit, locatis, locaverunt, locavit, lociis, loco, locus, platea, ponam, ponamque, ponamus, ponant, ponantur, ponas, ponat, ponatis, ponatur, pone, ponebam, ponebant, ponebantur, ponebas, ponebat, ponemus, ponendae, ponendam, ponendi, ponens, ponent, ponentes, ponentque, ponentur, ponere, ponerem, ponerent, ponerentur, poneret, poneretur, pones, ponesque, ponet, ponetis, ponetisque, ponetque, ponetur, poni, ponis, ponit, ponite, ponitis, pono, pono posui positum, ponunt, ponuntur, posita, positae, positam, positas, positi, positione, positis, posito, positum, positus, posueram, posuerant, posuerat, posuerim, posuerint, posueris, posuerit, posueritis, posuero, posuerunt, posueruntque, posui, posuimus, posuissent, posuisset, posuissetque, posuisti, posuistis, posuit, posuitque, punctum, situs, statu, statuam, statuamus, statuas, statuat, statue, statuemus, statuendam, statuens, statuent, statuentes, statuerat, statuere, statueret, statuerit, statueritis, statuerunt, statuesque, statuet, statui, statuimus, statuisset, statuisti, statuit, statuitque, statuo, statuta, statutis, statuto, statutum, statuunt, transposuit, undique. (various references)

Avestan200-600

... dâman, asangh, gâtu. (various references)

Old English450-1100

ge-logian, lecgan. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

placea. (various references)

Old French900-1400

estal, poser. (various references)

Spanish900-Modern

plaza. (various references)

Anglo-French1100-1600

soil. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

lieu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Place

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 25, Verse 7
Latin405VulgateMelius est enim ut dicatur tibi ascende huc quam ut humilieris coram principe
Middle English1395WyclifBetere is forsothe, that it be seid to thee, Steye vp hidir, than that thou be mekid beforn a prince.
Jacobean English1611King JamesFor better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Victorian English1833WebsterFor better it is that it be said to thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thy eyes have seen.
Basic English1964OgdenFor it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Place

LanguageProverbs Chapter 25, Verse 7
CebuanoKay labing maayo nga igaingon kanimo: Sumaka ka ngari, Kay sa pagbutang kanimo sa labing ubos diha sa presencia sa principe, Nga makita sa imong mga mata.
Croatianjer je bolje da ti se kaže: "Popni se gore" nego da te ponize pred odliènikom.
Danishdet er bedre, du får Bud: "Kom heropl" end man flytter dig ned for en Stormands Øjne. Hvad end dine Øjne har set,
DutchWant het is beter, dat men tot u zegge: Kom hier bovenaan, dan dat men u vernedere voor het aangezicht eens prinsen, dien uw ogen gezien hebben.
FinnishSillä parempi on, jos sinulle sanotaan: "Käy tänne ylös", kuin että sinut alennetaan ylhäisen edessä, jonka silmäsi olivat nähneet.
FrenchCar il vaut mieux qu`on te dise: Monte-ici! Que si l`on t`abaisse devant le prince que tes yeux voient.
GermanDenn es ist dir besser, daß man zu dir sage: Tritt hier herauf! als daß du vor dem Fürsten erniedrigt wirst, daß es deine Augen sehen müssen.
Haitian CreolePito yo di ou moute pi wo, pase pou yo fè ou bay plas la, pou ou ta wont devan chèf la.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariLebih baik dipersilakan naik ke tempat yang lebih terhormat daripada disuruh memberi tempatmu kepada orang yang lebih berpangkat.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamakarena lebih baik orang berkata kepadamu: Marilah engkau, naik ke mari, dari pada engkau direndahkan orang di hadapan seorang bangsawan, yang telah kaupandang mudah akan dia.
MaoriHe pai he hoki kia kiia mai ki a koe, Haere mai ki runga nei; i te mea kia whakahokia iho koe ki raro i te aroaro o te rangatira i kitea nei e ou kanohi.
NorwegianFor det er bedre de sier til dig: Kom her op, enn at du blir flyttet ned for en stormann, som du hadde sett.
Portugueseporque melhor é que te digam: Sobe, para aqui; do que seres humilhado perante o príncipe.   
Rumaniancqci este mai bine sq yi se zicq: ,,Suie-te mai sus!`` deckt sq fii pogorkt knaintea voivodului pe care yi -l vqd ochii. -
RussianРПФПНХ ЮФП МХЮЫЕ, ЛПЗДБ УЛБЦХФ ФЕВЕ: `РПКДЙ УАДБ РПЧЩЫЕ`, ОЕЦЕМЙ ЛПЗДБ РПОЙЪСФ ФЕВС РТЕД ЪОБФОЩН, ЛПФПТПЗП ЧЙДЕМЙ ЗМБЪБ ФЧПЙ.
Spanishporque mejor es que se te diga: "Sube acá", antes que seas humillado delante del noble. Cuando tus ojos hayan visto algo,

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Place

Derivations

Words beginning with "place": placeable, placebo, placeboes, placebos, placed, placeholder, placeholders, placekick, placekicked, placekicker, placekickers, placekicking, placekicks, placeless, placelessly, placeman, placemen, placement, placements, placenta, placentae, placental, placentals, placentas, placentation, placentations, placer, placers, places, placet, placets. (additional references)

Words ending with "place": anyplace, birthplace, commonplace, displace, emplace, everyplace, fireplace, marketplace, misplace, preplace, replace, showplace, someplace, workplace. (additional references)

Words containing "place": birthplaces, commonplaceness, commonplacenesses, commonplaces, complacence, complacences, complacencies, complacency, complacent, complacently, displaceable, displaced, displacement, displacements, displaces, emplaced, emplacement, emplacements, emplaces, fireplaced, fireplaces, irreplaceabilities, irreplaceability, irreplaceable, irreplaceableness, irreplaceablenesses, irreplaceably, marketplaces, misplaced, misplacement, misplacements, misplaces, outplacement, outplacements, preplaced, preplaces, replaceable, replaced, replacement, replacements, replacer, replacers, replaces, showplaces, transplacental, transplacentally, uncomplacent, unplaced, workplaces. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Place" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alace, lpac, Opaldce, pacem, pacey, Palca, palce, phace, phake, piace, piaco, Pilaki, plabe, placeb, placee, placen, placeo, placet, Placeth, placue, plahe, plaje, plak, plaka, plake, planci, plase, plasha, plasia, plave, plaxe, playe, pleace, plech, pleka, pleye, pleze, plice, pliec, plike, Pliko, Ploce, Plocek, plucu, pluke, pluxe, polac, Polaca, Praca, prace, Pulacayo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Place"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "place" (pronounced plā"s)
4p l ā" sdisplace, misplace, replace.
3-l ā" sglace, interlace, lace.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Place

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-p"

-1 letter: alec, cape, clap, lace, leap, pace, pale, peal, plea.

-2 letters: ace, ale, alp, ape, cap, cel, cep, lac, lap, lea, pac, pal, pea, pec.

-3 letters: ae, al, el, la, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-p"
 

+1 letter: caplet, carpel, chapel, culpae, epical, palace, parcel, placed, placer, places, placet, plaice, pleach, plicae.

 

+2 letters: acaleph, beclasp, bluecap, calipee, caliper, capable, capelan, capelet, capelin, capless, caplets, capsule, carpale, carpels, chapels, chaplet, cheaply, clamped, clamper, clapped, clapper, clasped, clasper, cleanup, clypeal, copulae, cupulae, cypsela, ectypal, emplace, enclasp, epochal, escalop, palaced, palaces, panicle, parcels, peculia, pedocal, pelagic, pelican, percale, placate, placebo, placers, placets, placket, plaices, planche, plectra, plicate, polecat, prelacy, reclasp, replace, replica, scaleup, scalped, scalpel, scalper, spackle, spancel, special, specula, upscale.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Frequency
18. Names: Derived from
19. Names: Company Usage
20. Expressions
21. Expressions: Internet
22. Translations: Modern
23. Translations: Ancient
24. Bible Trace
25. Abbreviations
26. Acronyms
27. Derivations
28. Rhymes
29. Anagrams
30. Bibliography


  

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