place: significato e definizioni

An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of space.

Room or space, especially adequate space: There is place for everyone at the back of the room.

The particular portion of space occupied by or allocated to a person or thing.

A building or an area set aside for a specified purpose: a place of worship.

A dwelling; a house: bought a place on the lake.

A business establishment or office.

A locality, such as a town or city: visited many places.

A public square or street with houses in a town.

A space in which one person, such as a passenger or spectator, can sit or stand.

A setting for one person at a table.

A position regarded as belonging to someone or something else; stead: She was chosen in his place.

A particular point that one has reached, as in a book: I have lost my place.

A particular spot, as on the body: the place that hurts.

The proper or designated role or function: the place of the media in a free society.

The proper or customary position or order: These books are out of place.

A suitable setting or occasion: not the place to argue.

The appropriate right or duty: not her place to criticize.

Social station: He overstepped his place.

A particular situation or circumstance: Put yourself in my place.

High rank or status.

A job, post, or position: found a place in the company.

Relative position in a series; standing.

Games Second position for betting purposes, as in a horserace.

The specified stage in a list of points to be made, as in an argument: in the first place.

Mathematics A position in a numeral or series.