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pleace

pleace is the obsolete spelling of please.

pleace is the obsolete spelling of place.

Meaning of please

Verb

please (third-person singular simple present pleases, present participle pleasing, simple past and past participle pleased)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
    • Her presentation pleased the executives.
  2. (ergative, intransitive) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
    • Just do as you please.
    Synonyms:
    desire, will

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Meaning of place

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...
  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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Questions about pleace

What is pleace the obsolete spelling of?
Pleace is the obsolete spelling of please.

Words near pleace in the dictionary

  1. plea of the crown
  2. plea-bargain
  3. plea-bargained
  4. plea-bargaining
  5. plea-bargains
  6. pleace
  7. pleach
  8. pleached
  9. pleacher
  10. pleachers
  11. pleaches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pleace (page history and authors); please (page history and authors); place (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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