palace

Syllables: pal·aceUK/ˈpælɪs/

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British/ˈpalɪs/

palace noun: official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.

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Noun

palace (plural palaces)

Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
A large and lavishly ornate residence.
- On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at the palace she found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 293
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.

Verb

palace (third-person singular simple present palaces, present participle palacing, simple past and past participle palaced)

(archaic) To decorate or ornate.
- And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean.1921, Kenneth Morris, The Crest-Wave of Evolution
- May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green...1874, Benj. N. Martin, Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader

Proper noun capitalized: Palace

Palace

(UK, abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Crystal Palace Football Club (“a football team from London”).
(Philippines, abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Malacañang Palace.

palace meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

palace in Hindi

large, lavish residence: महल mahal, प्रासाद prāsād

palace in Tamil

large, lavish residence: அரண்மனை araṇmaṉai, மாளிகை māḷikai

palace in Marathi

large, lavish residence: महाल mahāl

palace in Urdu

large, lavish residence: مَحَل mahal, قَصْر qasr

More languagesFewer languages

palace in Bengali: প্রাসাদ praśad, মহল mohol
palace in Telugu: ప్యాలెస్ pyāles
palace in Malayalam: കൊട്ടാരം, കൊട്ടാരത്തിൻ്റെ
palace in Kannada: ಅರಮನೆ aramane
palace in Punjabi: ਮਹਿਲ
palace in Gujarati: મહેલ mahěl
palace in Odia: ରାଜପ୍ରାସାଦ, ପ୍ରାସାଦ
palace in Sanskrit: प्रासाद prāsāda
palace in Sinhala: මාලිගය māligaya
palace in Nepali: दरबार darbār, महल mahal
palace in Pashto: ماڼۍ mâṇëy, قصر qasər
palace in Tagalog: palasyo
palace in Arabic: قَصْر qaṣr, بَلَاط balāṭ, سَرَاي sarāy
palace in Malay: istana
palace in Indonesian: istana
palace in Thai: ตำหนัก dtam-nàk, พระตำหนัก prá dtam-nàk, ราชวัง, พระราชวัง
palace in Vietnamese: cung điện
palace in Myanmar: နန်း nan:, နန်းတော် nan:tau
Dzongkha: ཕོ་བྲང pho brang

Examples of palace in a sentence

The knight swore not to return to the palace until he had found the treasure.
On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor’s palace.
The White House is the presidential palace of the United States.

All 40 example sentences with palace

Forms of palace

Noun
plural	palaces
Verb
third-person singular present	palaces
present participle	palacing
past participle	palaced
past	palaced

Plural of palace: palaces

Origin of palace

From Middle English paleys, from Old French palais, which comes from Latin palātium, from Palātium, in reference to the Palatine (Palatine Hill), one of the seven hills of Rome, where the aristocracy of the Roman Republic—and later, Roman emperors—built large, splendid residences. The name is ultimately either from Etruscan, the same source as Pales (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”), or Latin palus (“stake; enclosure”). Doublet of palazzo and Pfalz.

Phrases with palace

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Questions about palace

What does palace mean?: Palace means official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
What is palace in Hindi?: Palace in Hindi is महल (mahal), प्रासाद (prāsād). See Palace meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is palace?: Palace can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce palace?: Palace is pronounced /ˈpælɪs/ (UK).
What is the plural of palace?: The plural of palace is palaces.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palace (page history and authors); Palace (page history and authors); palace (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palace (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palace (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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