place – English noun declension

English noun forms of place

Noun: place
Singularplace
Pluralplaces

Sample Sentences

  • Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place [c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:]
  • They live at Westminster Place.
  • He is going back to his native place on vacation.
  • From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
  • 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:]
  • Do you want to come over to my place later?
  • Which place hurts the most?
  • Place,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease. [1901, John Stephen Farmer et al., Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, volume V, page 220:]
  • ‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...
  • ‘She means the little girls room.’ [1951, William Styron, chapter II, in Lie Down in Darkness, page 59:]
  • I'll check places I think she might be.
  • In that same place thou hast appointed me,
  • To-morrow truly will I meete with thee. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:]
  • What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound? [1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country. [1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:]
  • A place for everything, and everything in its place.
  • I lost my place when you interrupted me.
  • I'm in a strange place at the moment.
  • It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
  • I know my place as I would they should do theirs. [c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:]
  • Escalus.Esc.I shall desire you, Sir, to giue me leaue
  • To haue free speech with you; and it concernes me
  • To looke into the bottome of my place :
  • A powre I haue, but of what strength and nature,
  • I am not yet instructed. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • Men in great place are thrice servants. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Great Place”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
  • The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. [2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
  • We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
  • to win a bet on a horse for place
  • He lost his place in the national team.
  • three decimal places;  the hundreds place
  • That's what I said in the first place!
  • 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 […]
  • My word hath no place in you. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 8:37:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English place, conflation of Old English plæċe (“place, an open space, street”) and Old French place (“place, an open space”), both from Latin platēa (“plaza, wide street”), from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“to spread”), extended form of *pleh₂- (“flat”). Displaced native Old English stōw, stede (partially), and -ern. Compare also English pleck (“plot of ground”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot, location”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and plaza.
2. In the etymological chain from Latin platēa, note Old French place, which has multiple descendants — including German Platz, itself with many descendants (e.g., Russian плац (plac)). Also note a more distant chain node Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), whence English Plato and English plate (via Latin). See: Middle English Nouns 'place', Old English Nouns 'plæċe', Latin Nouns 'platēa', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πλατεῖα', German Nouns 'Platz', Russian Nouns 'плац', English Nouns 'plate'.

Verbs referencing "place"

German Nouns Platz, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns plass, Swedish Nouns plejs.