Usually means: Location defined by context and characteristics.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word place:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. place: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. place: Merriam-Webster
  3. place: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. place: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. place: Collins English Dictionary
  6. place: Vocabulary.com
  7. Place, place: Wordnik
  8. place: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Place, place: Wiktionary
  10. place: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. place: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. place: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. place: Dictionary.com
  14. place (n.), place (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. place: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Place (Reddit), Place (United States Census Bureau), Place (mathematics), Place, The Place (film), The Place: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Place: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. place: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. place: Rhymezone
  20. place, place (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. place: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Place: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. place: FreeDictionary.org
  24. place: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. place: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. place: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. place: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. place: Legal dictionary
  4. place: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLACE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. place: CCI Computer
  3. place: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. place: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLACE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. place: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Place: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. place, place: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Place, the place: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLACE: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's
  2. Place: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See placeable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
noun:  An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
noun:  (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
noun:  An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
noun:  Any area of the earth: a region.
noun:  The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
noun:  The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
noun:  An area of the body, especially the skin.
noun:  (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
noun:  (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
noun:  A location or position in space.
noun:  A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
noun:  (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
noun:  (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
noun:  A state of mind.
noun:  (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
noun:  (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
noun:  A role or purpose; a station.
noun:  The position of a contestant in a competition.
noun:  (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
noun:  The position as a member of a sports team.
noun:  (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
noun:  Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
noun:  Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
noun:  Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
verb:  (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
verb:  (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
verb:  (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
verb:  (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
verb:  (transitive) To vouch for someone's alibi.
verb:  (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
verb:  (transitive, in collocations) To make.
verb:  (transitive) To bet.
verb:  (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
verb:  (transitive) To assign (more or less value) to something.
noun:  A surname.

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