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position has 27 distinct synonyms spread across 14 of its 18 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the particular portion of space occupied by something
“he put the lamp back in its place”
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
“consider what follows from the positivist view”
the arrangement of the body and its limbs
“he assumed an attitude of surrender”
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
“he had the status of a minor”
a job in an organization
“he occupied a post in the treasury”
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
“the position of the hands on the clock”
the appropriate or customary location
“the cars were in position”
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
“what position does he play?”
the act of putting something in a certain place
a rationalized mental attitude
an item on a list or in a sequence
“in the second place”
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for position come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.