palace
noun
the official residence of a king, queen, bishop, or other sovereign or exalted personage.
palaces
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pluralof palace.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The city had no known palaces where a ruler or ruling class could have controlled these tools of commerce and administration.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
It’s a world of classical pianists and opera singers rather than thumping bass, Gothic palaces over private islands in the Bahamas and fine Barolo instead of sugary margaritas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Beijing has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building sports stadiums, presidential palaces, hospitals and roads in Pacific island nations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
His two daughters have homes in the Cotswolds and in Portugal as well as their royal properties in the palaces.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
They must have felt exactly as I do now glaring at Mobutu on the doorstep of his fairy-tale palaces, shrugging, with his two hands thrust deep into the glittering loot of his mines.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
