place

Pronunciation

• enPR: plās
• IPA: /pleɪs/
• SAMPA: /pleIs/

• Audio (US)

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Homophones

• plaice

Noun

Singular place

Plural places

1. A place is a point in space: a town, building, room, or even somewhere on a desk.

   It's nice to see the whole family together in one place.

Synonyms

• location
• position
• area
• spot

Idioms

• take place
• in X's place
• in place of

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) place

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) places

Past tense (ya wuce) placed

Past participle (ya wuce) placed

Present participle (ana cikin yi) placing

1. (transitive) If you place something somewhere, you put it there, usually carefully.