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palace | den |

As a proper noun palace

is (soccer) , a football team from london.

palace

English

(wikipedia palace)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
  • A large and lavishly ornate residence.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.

    • Derived terms

    * palace politics * palatial * puck palace

    Verb

    (palac)
  • (archaic) To decorate or ornate.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Kenneth Morris, title=The Crest-Wave of Evolution, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Benj. N. Martin, title=Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December, palaced in snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."}} ----

    den

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) den, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
    • a den of robbers
    Daniel was put into the lions’ den .
  • A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
    • a den of vice
    an opium den'''; a gambling '''den
  • A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
  • (UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * (home of certain animals) lair *: See also:

    Verb

    (denn)
  • (reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) denier, from (etyl) denarius.

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • (a unit of weight)

    • Anagrams

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