place
[ pleys ]
/ pleɪs /
noun
verb (used with object), placed, plac·ing.
verb (used without object), placed, plac·ing.
Sports.
- to finish among the first three competitors in a race.
- to finish second in a horse race, harness race, etc.
to earn a specified standing with relation to others, as in an examination, competition, etc.: He placed fifth in a graduation class of 90.
Idioms for place
Origin of place
First recorded before 950; Middle English noun
plaas, plas, a conflation of Old English
plæce, plætse and Middle French
place, plasse “space, available space,” from Medieval Latin
placea, from Vulgar Latin
plattea, from Latin
platea, platēa “wide street, courtyard, area,” from Greek
plateîa (hodós) “wide (street),” noun use of feminine of
platýs “wide, broad, level”; verb derivative of the noun; see
flat1,
plate1
OTHER WORDS FROM place
Words nearby place
placard,
placas,
placate,
placative,
placatory,
place,
place card,
place in the sun,
place kick,
place mat,
place name
Example sentences from the Web for place
British Dictionary definitions for place (1 of 2)
place
/ (pleɪs) /
noun
verb (mainly tr)
Word Origin for place
C13: via Old French from Latin
platēa courtyard, from Greek
plateia, from
platus broad; compare French
plat flat
British Dictionary definitions for place (2 of 2)
Place
/ (pleɪs) /
noun
Francis. 1771–1854, British radical, who campaigned for the repeal (1824) of the Combination Acts, which forbade the forming of trade unions, and for parliamentary reform
Idioms and Phrases with place
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