Word Finder - place

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(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.

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A location or position in space.

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A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.

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A passage or extract from a book or document.

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A topic.

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A frame of mind.

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I'm in a strange place at the moment.

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A chess position; a square of the chessboard.

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(social) A responsibility or position in an organization.

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A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.

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Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

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three decimal places;  the hundreds place

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Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

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That's what I said in the first place!

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Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

In the first place, he didn't consider this home.

She returned to her place at the table.

Now it was a place of torture.

He lifted the nest gently and put it in a safe place in the forks of the tree.

There was no place where he could set his foot to climb out.

That was a good place to remember.

If there was any other place to go, I'd like to go there.

It must be a beautiful and happy place; and I wish to know all about it.

She'd better find a safe place until they arrived.

It looks like a fine place to raise children.

Up until now, we have thought of the Internet as a place to store information, and we have depended upon search engines to help us find it.

We lived a long way from any school for the blind or the deaf, and it seemed unlikely that any one would come to such an out-of-the-way place as Tuscumbia to teach a child who was both deaf and blind.

I know a place where we can hole up for the night.

Their hiding place was safe for the present.

He visited several cities, and in each place he was well paid for his music.

When they wanted to move the boat from one place to another they had to pole it; that is, they pushed against a long pole, the lower end of which reached the bottom of the stream.

A large rock beside the road provided a place to rest while she listened for vehicles.

Grandpa, my mother's father, originally built this place in the nineteen-thirties and wired it for electricity years later.

I suppose no place is better than home on Christmas.

In the second place, I'm not going to play doctor.

The system will also look for anything they've written publicly about this place (Yelp, Facebook, personal blog) and which superlatives they used to describe it.

This place is dark enough as it is.

Get on in there and set yourself a place - or do I have to do that?

It was a pretty place, with vines growing thickly over the broad front porch.

The place smelled like a mossy garden.

The place was dark and empty.

Her heart raced as she frantically searched for a place to hide.

The first one that passes the place where the Princess sits shall be named the winner.

A conference took place confined to the magnates sitting at the table.

She sat down because the code of conduct about standing while guarding took second place to comfort.

If he couldn't get in the shed, he'd probably find some other place to stay warm.

But suddenly, at a narrow place, they met a very old man, hobbling slowly along over the stony way.

It's a pretty hopeless place to take a reader.

I've got a small place down by Brownsville.

They could find a place somewhere.

All I want is a small place of my own.

They looked, as they thought, in every place where the lambs might have taken shelter.

Slowly, one little step at a time, it crept up across the rough place where it had slipped and fallen so often.

The hunter still kept his place and listened to the hounds.

The only thing that made Princess Mary anxious about him was that he slept very little and, instead of sleeping in his study as usual, changed his sleeping place every day.

She waited for him to get a little way down the path before she slipped from her hiding place and went to the door.

We couldn't find a prettier place, I'm sure.

In the first place, I tell you we have no right to question the Emperor about that, and secondly, if the Russian nobility had that right, the Emperor could not answer such a question.

Alpatych, I'll set the place on fire myself.

His nod was noncommittal as he examined the place where the car had gone over.

We raze the place.

An outsider is out of place here...

Every place seemed unsatisfactory, but worst of all was his customary couch in the study.

I don't eat much – or go any place.

She cowered into her hiding place, trying to breathe softly in spite of her state of panic.