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place is a noun and verb meaning "a point located with respect to surface features of some region". It carries 32 recorded senses.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
“this is a nice place for a picnic”
“a bright spot on a planet”
where you live at a particular time
“deliver the package to my home”
“he doesn't have a home to go to”
“your place or mine?”
a job in an organization
“he occupied a post in the treasury”
the particular portion of space occupied by something
“he put the lamp back in its place”
proper or designated social situation
“he overstepped his place”
“the responsibilities of a man in his station”
“married above her station”
proper or appropriate position or location
“a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen”
a public square with room for pedestrians
“they met at Elm Plaza”
“Grosvenor Place”
an item on a list or in a sequence
“in the second place”
“moved from third to fifth position”
a blank area
“write your name in the space provided”
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 place 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.