Noun

(en noun)

(label) An area; somewhere within an area.

# A location or position.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Here is the place appointed.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?

#* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

#* {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

# An open space, courtyard, market square.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place

# A group of houses.

# A region of a land.

#* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}

# Somewhere for a person to sit.

# (label) A house or home.

A frame of mind.

(label) A position, a responsibility.

# A role or purpose; a station.

#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Men in great place are thrice servants.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I know my place as I would they should do theirs.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}

# The position of a contestant in a competition.

# The position as a member of a sports team.

Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

* Mather Byles

In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion

Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

* Bible, (w) viii. 37

My word hath no place in you.

Noun

(en noun)

Clothing and ornamentation.

(Dryden)

A collection laid out to be viewed in full.

An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.

* Prescott

a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.

drawn up in battle array

* Gibbon

wedged together in the closest array

A large collection.

* Byron

their long array of sapphire and of gold

We offer a dazzling array of choices.

* {{quote-news, year=2011

, date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.}}

(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially , a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.

(legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

(military) A militia.