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placenames

placenames is the plural 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

Questions about placenames

What is placenames the plural of?
Placenames is the plural of placename.

Words near placenames in the dictionary

  1. placements
  2. placemonger
  3. placemongering
  4. placemongers
  5. placename
  6. placenames
  7. Placencia
  8. Placencias
  9. placeness
  10. placenta
  11. placenta cake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: placenames (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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