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playplaces

playplaces is the plural of playplace.

Meaning of playplace

Noun

playplace (plural playplaces)

  1. A place for recreation and play.
    • Lanny sat for a while looking out over the peaceful strait of water, which makes a playplace as well as a channel of commerce for the great metropolis.1946 May, Upton Sinclair, “The Darkest Hour”, in A World to Win (Lanny Budd; 7), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, book 5 (A Tide in the Affairs of Men), section IV, page 358
    Synonyms:
    playstead
    1. (broadly) A recreational space for children, often used in the context of indoor playgrounds or jungle gyms with tube mazes.

Questions about playplaces

What is playplaces the plural of?
Playplaces is the plural of playplace.

Words near playplaces in the dictionary

  1. playpiece
  2. playpieces
  3. playpipe
  4. playpipes
  5. playplace
  6. playplaces
  7. playreader
  8. playreaders
  9. playreading
  10. playreadings
  11. playright

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