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place
English
Alternative forms
- pleace (some English dialects: 18th–19th centuries; Scots: until the 17th century)
Pronunciation
- enPR: pl?s, IPA(key): /ple?s/, [p?l?e?s]
- Rhymes: -e?s
- Homophone: plaice
Etymology 1
From Middle English place, conflation of Old English plæse, plætse, plæ?e (“place, an open space, street”) and Old French place (“place, an open space”), both from Latin platea (“plaza, wide street”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa), shortening of ??????? ???? (plateîa hodós, “broad way”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“to spread”), extended form of *pleh?- (“flat”). Displaced native Old English st?w. Compare also English pleck (“plot of ground”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot, location”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and plaza.
Noun
place (plural places)
- (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, scene iv
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, scene iv
- (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- An area of the skin.
- (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- 1901, John Stephen Farmer & al., Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, Vol. V, page 220:
- Place,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease.
- 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, Ch. ii, page 59:
- ‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...
‘She means the little girls room.’
- ‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...
- 1901, John Stephen Farmer & al., Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, Vol. V, page 220:
- (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- A location or position in space.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
- (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
- A frame of mind.
- (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
- (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor
- In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion […]
- a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- My word hath no place in you.
Synonyms
- (market square): courtyard, piazza, plaza, square
- (somewhere to sit): seat
- (outhouse or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
- (location): location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot
- (frame of mind): frame of mind, mindset, mood
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Pijin: ples
- Tok Pisin: ples
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English placen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
place (third-person singular simple present places, present participle placing, simple past and past participle placed)
- (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
- (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
- (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
Conjugation
Additional archaic forms include the second-person singular past tense placedst.
Synonyms
- (to earn a given spot):
- (to put in a specific location): deposit, lay, lay down, put down
- (to remember where and when something or someone was previously encountered):
- (passive, to achieve a certain position): achieve, make
- (to sing (a note) with the correct pitch): reach
- (to arrange for, make (a bet)):
- (to recruit or match an appropriate person):
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Capel, Caple, capel, caple, clape
Czech
Alternative forms
- placu (locative singular)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?plat?s?]
- Rhymes: -ats?
- Hyphenation: pla?ce
Noun
place
- vocative/locative singular of plac
Anagrams
- palce, palec
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plas/
- Homophones: placent, places
Etymology 1
From Old French place, from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa).
Noun
place f (plural places)
- place, square, plaza, piazza
- place, space, room
- place, seat
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
- ? English: laplas
- ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (bla?a)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
place
- first/third-person singular present indicative of placer
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of placer
- second-person singular imperative of placer
Further reading
- “place” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- clape, Le Cap
Interlingua
Verb
place
- present of placer
- imperative of placer
Latin
Verb
plac?
- second-person singular present active imperative of place?
Old French
Alternative forms
- plache, plaise, plas
Etymology
From Latin platea.
Noun
place f (oblique plural places, nominative singular place, nominative plural places)
- place; location
Descendants
- French: place
- Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
- ? English: laplas
- Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
- ? Irish: plás (through Anglo-Norman)
- ? Middle Dutch: plaetse
- Dutch: plaats
- Limburgish: plaotsj, plaatsj
- ? Middle High German: blaz, plaz
- German: Platz
- ? Czech: plac
- ? Estonian: plats
- ? Macedonian: ???? (plac)
- ? Polish: plac
- ? Russian: ???? (plac)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ????
- Latin: plac
- Luxembourgish: Plaz
- German: Platz
- ? Middle Low German: platse, platze
- ? Old Norse: plaz
- Danish: plads
- Faroese: pláss
- Norwegian: plass
- Old Swedish: platz
- Swedish: plats
- Westrobothnian: plass
- ? Old Norse: plaz
- ? Middle English: place (conflated with Old English plæse, plætse, plæ?e)
- English: place
- Pijin: ples
- Tok Pisin: ples
- English: place
- ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (bla?a)
- Norman: plache (through Old Northern French plache)
- Walloon: plaece
- ? Welsh: plas
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (place, supplement)
- place on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pla.t?s?/
Noun
place m inan
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of plac
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?plat??e]
Verb
place
- second-person singular imperative of pl?cea
- third-person singular present indicative of pl?cea
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?pla?e/, [?pla.?e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /?plase/, [?pla.se]
Verb
place
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of placer.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of placer.
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dispense
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispensare (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?p?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Hyphenation: dis?pense
Verb
dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)
- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- to dispense justice
- 1662, John Dryden, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
- He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
- 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
- (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
- His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed
Derived terms
- dispensary
- dispenser
- dispense with
Translations
Noun
dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)
- (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
- (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
Translations
Derived terms
- dispensable
- dispensation
- dispensative
- dispensatory
Related terms
- dispend
Further reading
- dispense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- dispense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- dispense at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- despines, piedness
French
Etymology
Deverbal of dispenser.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
dispense f (plural dispenses)
- dispensation
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- third-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- second-person singular imperative of dispenser
Further reading
- “dispense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- pendisse
Italian
Noun
dispense f
- plural of dispensa
Verb
dispense
- third-person singular past historic of dispegnere
Anagrams
- pendessi
Portuguese
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- first-person singular imperative of dispensar
- third-person singular imperative of dispensar
Spanish
Verb
dispense
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispensar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
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