Definition of place

"place" in the noun sense

1. topographic point, place, spot

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

"this is a nice place for a picnic"

"a bright spot on a planet"

2. place, property

any area set aside for a particular purpose

"who owns this place?"

"the president was concerned about the property across from the White House"

3. place

an abstract mental location

"he has a special place in my thoughts"

"a place in my heart"

"a political system with no place for the less prominent groups"

4. place

a general vicinity

"He comes from a place near Chicago"

5. stead, position, place, lieu

the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

"can you go in my stead?"

"took his place"

"in lieu of"

6. place, shoes

a particular situation

"If you were in my place what would you do?"

7. home, place

where you live at a particular time

"deliver the package to my home"

"he doesn't have a home to go to"

"your place or mine?"

8. position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation

a job in an organization

"he occupied a post in the treasury"

9. position, place

the particular portion of space occupied by something

"he put the lamp back in its place"

10. place, station

proper or designated social situation

"he overstepped his place"

"the responsibilities of a man in his station"

"married above her station"

11. seat, place

a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane

"he booked their seats in advance"

"he sat in someone else's place"

12. place

the passage that is being read

"he lost his place on the page"

13. place

proper or appropriate position or location

"a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"

14. plaza, place, piazza

a public square with room for pedestrians

"they met at Elm Plaza"

"Grosvenor Place"

15. place, position

an item on a list or in a sequence

"in the second place"

"moved from third to fifth position"

16. space, blank space, place

a blank area

"write your name in the space provided"

"place" in the verb sense

1. put, set, place, pose, position, lay

put into a certain place or abstract location

"Put your things here"

"Set the tray down"

"Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"

"Place emphasis on a certain point"

2. place

place somebody in a particular situation or location

"he was placed on probation"

3. rate, rank, range, order, grade, place

assign a rank or rating to

"how would you rank these students?"

"The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

4. locate, place, site

assign a location to

"The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"

5. place

to arrange for

"place a phone call"

"place a bet"

6. place, come in, come out

take a place in a competition often followed by an ordinal

"Jerry came in third in the Marathon"

7. target, aim, place, direct, point

intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

"He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"

"criticism directed at her superior"

"direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"

8. identify, place

recognize as being establish the identity of someone or something

"She identified the man on the `wanted' poster"

9. place

assign to (a job or a home)

10. set, localize, localise, place

locate

"The film is set in Africa"

11. place, put, set

estimate

"We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."

12. place, localize, localise

identify the location or place of

"We localized the source of the infection"

13. invest, put, commit, place

make an investment

"Put money into bonds"

14. station, post, send, place

assign to a station

15. place

finish second or better in a horse or dog race

"he bet $2 on number six to place"

16. place

sing a note with the correct pitch

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Quotations for place

In the place quoted.

Place for repentance.

Youth is everywhere in place. [ Emerson ]

Freedom's soil hath only place
For a free and fearless race! [ Whittier ]

There's mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging thought,
Gives even affliction a grace,
And reconciles man to his lot. [ William Cowper ]

The presiding genius of the place.

Simple duty hath no place for fear. [ Whittier ]

It is the place that shews the man. [ Proverb ]

But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man. [ Michael J. Barry ]

Observe degree, priority, and place. [ William Shakespeare ]

And when a lady's in the case.
You know all other things give place. [ Gay ]

Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

A place at court is a continual bribe. [ Proverb ]

The grave is the general meeting-place. [ Proverb ]

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality.
Reading stands in the place of company. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

From no place can you exclude the fates. [ Martial ]

Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven shined bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place. [ Spenser ]

His time's forever, everywhere his place. [ Abraham Cowley ]

Screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Wit does not take the place of knowledge. [ Vauvenargues ]

Still to ourselves in every place consigned
Our own felicity we make or find. [ Goldsmith ]

Assume the proud place your merits have won. [ Horace ]

Rising to great place is by a winding stair. [ Bacon ]

But inborn worth that fortune can control,
New strung and stiffer bent her softer soul.
The heroine assumed the woman's place;
Confirmed her mind, and fortified her face. [ Dryden ]

No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize. [ William Shakespeare ]

There's place and means for every man alive. [ William Shakespeare ]

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. [ Milton ]

He who knows man is everywhere in his place. [ Klinger ]

But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sit firm in your place and none can hurt you. [ Proverb ]

You must honour the place, not the place you. [ Proverb ]

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive through a happy place. [ Wordsworth ]

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace
If not, by any means get wealth and place. [ Pope ]

Sit in your place, and none can make you rise. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease.
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. [ Pope ]

Not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Nature counts nothing that she meets with base,
But lives and loves in every place. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Custom forms us all.
Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief
Are consequences of our place of birth. [ Hill ]

Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone.
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. [ Cowper ]

Good reasons must of force give place to better. [ Jul. Caes ]

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar. [ Tennyson ]

A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green. [ E. B. Browning ]

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. [ John Howard Payne ]

The heart of man is the place the devils dwell in. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The place in which; the place previously occupied.

Be it never so humble, there's no place like home. [ J. H. Payne ]

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. [ Epictetus ]

Before employing a fine word, find a place for it. [ Joubert ]

Men say, By pride the angels fell from heaven.
By pride they reached a place from which they fell. [ Joaquin Miller ]

To find his place and fill it is success for a man. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Sit in your own place, and no man can make you rise. [ Proverb ]

Worth without wealth is a good servant out of place. [ Proverb ]

He quits his place well that leaves his friend there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you were in my place, you would think differently. [ Terence ]

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere. [ Professor Vinet ]

All things have their place, knew we how to place them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The custom of the manor and the place must be observed. [ Law Maxim ]

Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place. [ Lord Palmerston ]

To every saint his own torch, (i.e. his place of honour). [ Italian Proverb ]

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [ Cicero ]

In love, one must not attack a place unless one storms it.

To keep the best place (the highest side of the pavement). [ French Proverb ]

The paternal hearth, the rallying place of the affections. [ Washington Irving ]

A man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place. [ Proverb ]

Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment. [ Lichtenberg ]

Nothing is more haughty than a common-place man raised to power. [ French Proverb ]

To place wit above sense, is to place superfluity above utility. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

He that sits to work in the market-place shall have many teachers. [ Proverb ]

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [ Cicero ]

He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place. [ Sir Henry Saville ]

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors. [ Sir Robert Walpole ]

To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. [ Stanislaus ]

Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. [ Goethe ]

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. [ Landor ]

Would you know how to give? Put yourself in the place of him who receives. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. [ Beecher ]

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. [ Bacon ]

He that kisses his wife in the market-place shall have enough to teach him. [ Proverb ]

Man should place himself above prejudices, and woman should submit to them. [ Mme. Necker ]

Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place. [ Carlyle ]

There is no place invincible, wherein an ass loaden with gold may not enter. [ Collett ]

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game abounds. [ Latena ]

A woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon find her place at his feet. [ Louis Desnoyers ]

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary. [ M. de Montlosier ]

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. [ Coleridge ]

It is uncertain at what place death awaits thee. Wait thou for it at every place. [ Seneca ]

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. [ Massinger ]

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. [ Cowper ]

This is the field and acre of our God; this is the place where human harvests grow. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. [ Aristippus ]

Set all things in their own peculiar place, And know that order is the greatest grace. [ Dryden ]

Under whose feet (subjected to His grace). Sit nature, fortune, motion, time, and place. [ Tasso ]

The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor roan's wealth, the prisoner's release. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place, credit decayed, and people that have of nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place. [ Alan Turing ]

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. [ Joubert ]

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows common-place, as to the rest of us. [ Lowell ]

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. [ Theodore Parker ]

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. [ Johnson ]

Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Instead of seeking happiness by going out of our place, our skill should be to find it where we are. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. [ Napoleon I ]

The introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most excellent place among human actions. [ Bacon ]

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty, if you only have a sensibility to beauty? [ Beecher ]

Since Cupid is represented with a torch in his hand, why did they place virtue on a barrel of gunpowder? [ Levis ]

It is the treating of the common-place with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. [ J. F. Millet ]

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. [ Horace ]

The coming spring would first appear, and all this place with roses strew, if busy feet would let them grow. [ Waller ]

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. [ Luther ]

Leave it better than you found it. If we all did that, even in small ways, the world would be a much better place.

I change my place, but not my company. While here I have sometimes walked with God, and now I go to rest with Him. [ Dr. Preston ]

Virtue does not give talents, but it supplies their place. Talents neither give virtue, nor supply the place of it. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Paradise must be a tiresome place if it is peopled only by those saintly souls whose company we so dread here below. [ De Finod ]

As the ant does not wend her way to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of departed wealth.

We all have in our hearts a secret place where we keep, free from the contact of the world, our sweetest remembrances. [ De Finod ]

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. [ Blair ]

Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place. [ Milton ]

The freedom of some is the freedom of the herd of swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were drowned. [ Rev. W. Jay ]

Nothing on earth is without significance, but the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken - the manner, the place and the time. [ Southey ]

O place! O form, how often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]

The gentle breath of peace would leave him on the surface neglected and unmoved. It is only the tempest that lifts him from his place. [ Junius ]

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, and cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising, as a means of health and happiness. [ Timothy Flint ]

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. [ Goldsmith ]

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. [ Legouve ]

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. [ 0. A. Sala ]

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination. [ Hume ]

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. [ Euripides ]

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents. [ Simms ]

Soul rolls away the mist from his eyes, and the very spot selected as the receptacle of his tears, becomes the place of his highest rapture. [ J. T. Headley ]

The bride, lovely herself, and lovely by her side a bevy of bright nymphs, with sober grace came glittering like a star, and took her place. [ Dryden ]

In Nature things move violently to their places, and calmly in their place; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. [ Bacon ]

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of Necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. [ Socrates ]

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all. [ Mme. de Staël ]

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. [ Dr. Watts ]

Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. [ Lady Montagu ]

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. [ Phillips Brooks ]

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting-place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. [ Tupper ]

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one, and place his virtues in a fairer light. [ Lillo ]

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful. Every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. [ Emerson ]

When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. [ Holmes ]

A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure), but he would choose to die in Spain (where they say the Catholic religion is professed with great strictness). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. [ Bovee ]

Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. [ Hitopadesa ]

If all men would bring their misfortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock. [ Solon ]

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion. [ Joubert ]

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and cease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately. [ Ruskin ]

Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence, that, for us, is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it. [ Thomas Edwards ]

The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. [ Baxter ]

I have tormented the present with the preoccupations of the future; I have put my judgment in the place of Providence, and the happy child has been transformed into a care-worn man! [ E. Souvestre ]

It may be laid down as a general rule that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only a second place. [ Fielding ]

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. [ Channing ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. [ Horace ]

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? [ Mrs. Balfour ]

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them: but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth. [ Hazlitt ]

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. [ Percival ]

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses. [ Whittier ]

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. [ Emerson ]

Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives. To the Christian they are but the place at which he gathers breath for a nobler sentence. To Christ, the grave was but the hyphen between man and God, for He was God-man. [ Duffield ]

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar. [ G. C. Mason ]

No improvement that takes place if either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in. reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other. [ Colton ]

The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. [ Holmes ]

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true, but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]

Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say: but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. [ Voltaire ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free, where reform is a common hack, that is dismissed with a kick the moment it has brought its rider to his place. [ Colton ]

When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]

Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism. [ Thoreau ]

The flitting sunbeam has been grasped and made to do man's bidding in place of the painter's pencil. And although Franklin tamed the lightning, yet not until yesterday has its instantaneous flash been made the vehicle of language: thus in the transmission of thought annihilating space and time. [ Professor Robinson ]

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. [ Dr. Johnson ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot. [ Montaigne ]

The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying. [ Beecher ]

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]

Occur or Transpire? The misuse of these words is very common. Occur means simply to take place, to happen; transpire to leak out, to come to light. Hence, it is incorrect to say, The annual school exhibition transpired last week. The proper word here is occurred. But transpire is correctly used in such a sentence as, The proceedings of the caucus have not yet transpired. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]

Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]

It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]

Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]

Posture or Attitude? Each of these words has its appropriate place, and one should not be misapplied for the other. Posture is the mode of placing the body, and may be either natural or assumed. Attitude is always assumed, and is intended to display some grace of the body, or some affection or purpose of the mind. Postures, when natural, accommodate themselves to the convenience of the body; when assumed they may be either serious or ridiculous. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Neighborhood or Vicinity? Neighborhood means the place which is nigh, that is, nigh to one's habitation; vicinity primarily means the place which does not exceed in distance the extent of a village. Neighborhood refers to the inhabitants, or to inhabited places, and denotes nearness of persons to each other, or to objects; as, a populous neighborhood, vicinity denotes nearness of one object to another, whether person or thing; as, Oakland is in the vicinity of San Francisco.

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]

When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]

This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

place in Scrabble®

The word place is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters place:

PLACE
(36)
PLACE
(36)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word place

PLACE
(36)
PLACE
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PLACE
(30)
PLACE
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PLACE
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PLACE
(27)
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PLACE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In place

PLACE
(36)
PLACE
(36)
PACE
(33)
CLAP
(33)
CAPE
(33)
CLAP
(33)
PLACE
(30)
PLACE
(30)
PLACE
(30)
PALE
(27)
PLEA
(27)
PEAL
(27)
PLACE
(27)
PACE
(27)
LEAP
(27)
PLACE
(27)
CAPE
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PLACE
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CLAP
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place in Words With Friends™

The word place is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters place:

PLACE
(60)
PLACE
(60)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word place

PLACE
(60)
PLACE
(60)
PLACE
(48)
PLACE
(48)
PLACE
(42)
PLACE
(40)
PLACE
(36)
PLACE
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(36)
PLACE
(32)
PLACE
(32)
PLACE
(28)
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(28)
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(26)
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(24)
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(24)
PLACE
(24)
PLACE
(22)
PLACE
(22)
PLACE
(21)
PLACE
(20)
PLACE
(20)
PLACE
(18)
PLACE
(18)
PLACE
(17)
PLACE
(17)
PLACE
(16)
PLACE
(16)
PLACE
(16)
PLACE
(16)
PLACE
(15)
PLACE
(14)
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PLACE
(14)
PLACE
(13)
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PLACE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In place

PLACE
(60)
PLACE
(60)
CLAP
(57)
CLAP
(57)
PACE
(54)
CAPE
(54)
PLACE
(48)
PALE
(48)
LEAP
(48)
PLEA
(48)
PLACE
(48)
PEAL
(48)
PLACE
(42)
PLACE
(40)
PLACE
(36)
PLACE
(36)
PACE
(36)
PEAL
(36)
CAPE
(36)
PLACE
(36)
LACE
(36)
LEAP
(36)
CLAP
(33)
CLAP
(33)
CLAP
(33)
CLAP
(33)
PLACE
(32)
PLACE
(32)
CLAP
(30)
CAPE
(30)
PALE
(30)
PLEA
(30)
CLAP
(30)
PACE
(30)
CAPE
(30)
PACE
(30)
PACE
(30)
PACE
(30)
CAPE
(30)
LACE
(30)
CAPE
(30)
PACE
(28)
PLACE
(28)
PLACE
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CAPE
(28)
CAP
(27)
CAP
(27)
CAP
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PLACE
(26)
CAPE
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PACE
(26)
CAP
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PEAL
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PALE
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PEAL
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(24)
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LEAP
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PALE
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PEAL
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(24)
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(24)
CLAP
(23)
CLAP
(22)
CLAP
(22)
PACE
(22)
CLAP
(22)
CLAP
(22)
PLACE
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PLACE
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CAPE
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(21)
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PACE
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PLACE
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Word Growth involving place

Shorter words in place

ace lace

la lace

Longer words containing place

anyplace

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commonplace commonplaces

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