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)

The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.

*

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor ; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).

The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

A storey/story of a building.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor , where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

(label) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

(label) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

(label) A horizontal, flat ore body.

(Raymond)

(label) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

(label) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

(label) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.