places

Noun

place (countable and uncountable, plural places)

1. (physical) An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
   • Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-placec. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   courtyard, piazza, plaza, square

2. (often, physical) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
   • They live at Westminster Place.
3. (physical) An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
4. (physical) Any area of the earth: a region.
   • He is going back to his native place on vacation.
5. (physical) The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
   • We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.

   Synonyms:

   seat

6. (physical) The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
   • My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

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