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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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side
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?d, IPA(key): /sa?d/
- Hyphenation: side
- Rhymes: -a?d
- Homophone: sighed
Etymology 1
From Middle English side, from Old English s?de (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *s?d? (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?y- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
Noun
side (countable and uncountable, plural sides)
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- 2006, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (Jones & Bartlett Learning, ?ISBN, p. 234:
- Roll the patient onto the left side so that head, shoulders, and torso move at the same time without twisting.
- 2006, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (Jones & Bartlett Learning, ?ISBN, p. 234:
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- 2011, Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies, UK Edition, 3rd Edition, p.220:
- Initially, the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish unions refused to send national sides, preferring instead to send touring sides like the Barbarians, the Penguins, the Co-Optimists, the Wolfhounds, Crawshays Welsh, and the Public School Wanderers.
- 2011, Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies, UK Edition, 3rd Edition, p.220:
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- “Creating artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side too,” the spokesman said Kim told the meeting.
- “Creating artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side too,” the spokesman said Kim told the meeting.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Lord Chesterfield and Lord Chatham
- We have not always been of the […] same side in politics.
- sets the passions on the side of truth
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- 1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, p. 41
- But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market.
- 1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, p. 41
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
- (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
- (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
- Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.
- (slang, dated, uncountable) An unjustified air of self-importance.
- (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- 2010, Viola Spolin, ?Carol Sills, Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook (page 12)
- Some directors use full scripts (book); others use “sides,” which consist of one or two words of the cue and the subsequent full speech of the individual actor.
- 2010, Viola Spolin, ?Carol Sills, Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook (page 12)
- (LGBT, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during homosexual intercourse.
- My boyfriend and I are both sides, so we prefer to do oral on each other.
Synonyms
- (bounding straight edge of an object): edge
- (flat surface of an object): face
- (left or right half): half
- (surface of a sheet of paper): page
- (region in a specified position with respect to something):
- (one possible aspect of a concept):
- (set of opponents in a game): team
- (group having a particular allegiance in a war):
- (television channel): channel, station (US)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- a side issue; a side view or remark
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The law hath no side respect to their persons.
Verb
side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- Which will you side with, good or evil?
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays – "Of Great Place":
- All rising to great place is by a winding star; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
- 1958, Archer Fullingim, The Kountze [Texas] News, August 28, 1958:
- How does it feel... to... side in with those who voted against you in 1947?
- To lean on one side.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
- (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- to side a house
- (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- 1995, Orange Coast Magazine (volume 11, number 8, page 166)
- Entrees are sided with a generous portion of vegetables, and some include little surprises […]
- 1995, Orange Coast Magazine (volume 11, number 8, page 166)
Synonyms
- (ally oneself):
- take side
Derived terms
- side with
- siding
Translations
See also
- ally
- alliance
- join in
Etymology 2
From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English s?d (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-Germanic *s?daz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?y- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).
Adjective
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)
- (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
- c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confutation of Unwritten Verities, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth,”[2]
- But when he perceaved that the sayd Pryest could not pourge himself of the foresayd crime he prively payed him his quarters wages before hande and suffered hym to departe without farther tryall of the sayd cryme: and now he jetteth in london wyth side gown and sarcenet typet as good a virgin priest as the best.
- 1575, Robert Laneham, Robert Laneham’s Letter: Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenelworth in 1575, edited by F. J. Furnivall, London: Chatto & Windus, 1907, “The auncient Minstrell described,” p. 38,[3]
- Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 47-50,[4]
- What doe we make dost thou aske? why we make faces for feare: such as if thy mortall eyes could behold, would make thee water the long seames of thy side slops […]
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III, Scene 4,[5]
- By my troth, ’s but a night-gown in respect of yours: cloth o’ gold, and cuts, and laced with silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel […]
- c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confutation of Unwritten Verities, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth,”[2]
- (Scotland) Far; distant.
Derived terms
- sidth
Adverb
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)
- (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
Verb
side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)
- To clear, tidy or sort.
Anagrams
- Desi, Dies, EIDs, Eids, IDEs, IEDs, Ides, SEID, deis, desi, dies, eids, ides, sied
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse síða.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?d?/, [?si?ð??]
- Rhymes: -i?d?
Noun
side c (singular definite siden, plural indefinite sider)
- page
Declension
Further reading
- “side” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “side” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sidek. Equivalent to siduma +? -e.
Noun
side (genitive sideme, partitive sidet)
- bond, binding
- bandage
- relationship, tie
Inflection
Compounds
- kaelaside
Noun
side (genitive side, partitive sidet)
- communication (especially one achieved through technology)
- signal (especially in radio)
- communications (as a field)
- (colloquial) post office
Inflection
Compounds
- otseside
Finnish
(index si)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sidek. Equivalent to sitoa +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?side?/, [?s?ide?(?)]
- Rhymes: -ide
- Syllabification: si?de
Noun
side
- bandage
- bond
- sanitary towel
- (anatomy) ligament
Declension
Synonyms
- (sanitary towel): terveysside
- (ligament): ligamentti
Derived terms
Related terms
- sidos
Anagrams
- desi, desi-
Latin
Verb
s?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of s?d?
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish saiget, from Latin sagitta.
Noun
side f (genitive singular sidey, plural sideyn)
- arrow, bolt, shaft
Related terms
- fleit
- sideyr (“archer”)
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “saiget”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish síd, from Proto-Celtic *sedos, *s?dos (“mound (inhabited by fairies)”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?ds, *sed- (“seat”).
Noun
side m
- fairy hill or mound
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: sí
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 síd, síth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse síða.
Noun
side f or m (definite singular sida or siden, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)
- a page (e.g. in a book)
- side
- (of a case) aspect
- (on animal) flank
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²si?(d)?/ (examples of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse síða. Akin to English side.
Noun
side f (definite singular sida, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)
- a page (e.g. in a book)
- a side (various, though not all senses)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
side
- definite singular of sid
- plural of sid
References
- “side” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- deis, desi-, dise, seid
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?.de/
Etymology 1
From the adjective s?d.
Adverb
s?de
- widely
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *s?d?, whence also Old High German s?ta
Noun
s?de f
- side
Declension
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Late Latin s?ta, whence also Old High German s?da (“silk”).
Noun
s?de f (nominative plural s?dan)
- silk
Synonyms
- seolc
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?ið?e/
Pronoun
side
- inflection of suide:
- nominative/accusative singular masculine unstressed
- genitive singular feminine unstressed
Mutation
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian s?de, from Proto-Germanic *s?d?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sid?/
Noun
side c (plural siden, diminutive sydsje)
- side
- page
Derived terms
- webside
Further reading
- “side (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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