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placemark

placemark noun: a marker indicating a place on a map or elsewhere.

Noun

placemark (plural placemarks)

  1. A marker indicating a place on a map or elsewhere.
    Synonyms:
    placemarker

Verb

placemark (third-person singular simple present placemarks, present participle placemarking, simple past and past participle placemarked)

  1. (transitive) To indicate (a place on a map) by means of a marker.

Synonyms of placemark

Forms of placemark

Noun
pluralplacemarks
Verb
third-person singular presentplacemarks
present participleplacemarking
past participleplacemarked
pastplacemarked

Origin of placemark

From place + mark.

Questions about placemark

What does placemark mean?
Placemark means a marker indicating a place on a map or elsewhere.
What part of speech is placemark?
Placemark can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of placemark?
The plural of placemark is placemarks.

Words near placemark in the dictionary

  1. placemaker
  2. placemakers
  3. placemaking
  4. placeman
  5. placemanship
  6. placemark
  7. placemarked
  8. placemarker
  9. placemarkers
  10. placemarking
  11. placemarks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: placemark (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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