say it: PAL-uhs
palace is a noun meaning "a large and stately mansion". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a large and stately mansion
the governing group of a kingdom
“the palace issued an order binding on all subjects”
a large ornate exhibition hall
official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for palace come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.