place
[ pleys ]
/ pleɪs /
noun
verb (used with object), placed, plac·ing.
verb (used without object), placed, plac·ing.
Sports.
- to finish among the first three competitors in a race.
- to finish second in a horse race, harness race, etc.
to earn a specified standing with relation to others, as in an examination, competition, etc.: He placed fifth in a graduation class of 90.
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Origin of place
First recorded before 950; Middle English noun plaas, plas, a conflation of Old English plæce, plætse and Middle French place, plasse “space, available space,” from Medieval Latin placea, from Vulgar Latin plattea, from Latin platea, platēa “wide street, courtyard, area,” from Greek plateîa (hodós) “wide (street),” noun use of feminine of platýs “wide, broad, level”; verb derivative of the noun; see flat1, plate1
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British Dictionary definitions for place (1 of 2)
place
/ (pleɪs) /
noun
verb (mainly tr)
Word Origin for place
C13: via Old French from Latin platēa courtyard, from Greek plateia, from platus broad; compare French plat flat
British Dictionary definitions for place (2 of 2)
Place
/ (pleɪs) /
noun
Francis. 1771–1854, British radical, who campaigned for the repeal (1824) of the Combination Acts, which forbade the forming of trade unions, and for parliamentary reform
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