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place-name

place-name is the alternative form of placename.

Meaning of placename

Noun

placename (plural placenames)

  1. The name of a place; a word or phrase which indicates a particular location or region.
    • With a complex site, different site elements may not be terminologically distinguished, or else a generic term may be optionally added to the placename to distinguish a site element, such as a hill, well, or claypan at the location.2012, Nick Thieberger, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, page 401
    Synonyms:
    toponym, nomen loci, geonym, geographic name, geographical name

Forms of place-name

pluralplace-names

Questions about place-name

What is place-name the alternative form of?
Place-name is the alternative form of placename.

Words near place-name in the dictionary

  1. place-kick
  2. place-less
  3. place-manner-time
  4. place-monger
  5. place-mongers
  6. place-name
  7. place-names
  8. placeabilities
  9. placeability
  10. placeable
  11. placeables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: place-name (page history and authors); placename (page history and authors). 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.

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