place

1. noun

1)

an ideal place for dinner

Syn:

location, site, spot, setting, position, situation, area, region, locale; venue; technical locus

2)

foreign places

Syn:

country, state, area, region, town, city; locality, district; literary clime

3)

a place of her own

Syn:

home, house, flat, apartment; accommodations, property, pied-à-terre; rooms, quarters; informal pad, digs; formal residence, abode, dwelling (place), domicile, habitation

4)

if I were in your place, I'd sell now

Syn:

situation, position, circumstances; informal shoes

5)

a place was reserved for her

Syn:

seat, chair, space

6)

I offered him a place in the company

Syn:

job, position, post, appointment, situation, office; employment

7)

I know my place

Syn:

status, position, standing, rank, niche; dated estate, station

8)

it was not her place to sort it out

Syn:

responsibility, duty, job, task, role, function, concern, affair, charge; right, privilege, prerogative

2. verb

1)

books were placed on the table

Syn:

put (down), set (down), lay, deposit, position, plant, rest, stand, station, situate, leave; informal stick, dump, park, plonk, pop, plunk

2)

the trust you placed in me

Syn:

put, lay, set, invest

3)

a survey placed the company sixth

Syn:

rank, order, grade, class, classify, categorize; put, set, assign

4)

Joe couldn't quite place her

Syn:

identify, recognize, remember, put a name to, pin down; locate, pinpoint

5)

we were placed with foster parents

Syn:

house with, billet to; allocate to, assign to, appoint to

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- in the first place

- in place

- in place of

- out of place

- put someone in their place

- take place

- take the place of