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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 kicks
  3. place mat
  4. place mats
  5. place money
  6. place name
  7. place names
  8. place of articulation
  9. place of birth
  10. place of business
  11. place of decimals

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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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